These Ham and cheese pinwheels are an easy recipe made right in the air fryer. These dough wrapped tasty ham and swiss cheese bites will become your favorite party appetizer for holiday or family gatherings!
❤️ Why you'll love it
Easy air fryer recipe: these yummy pinwheels are ready in just 20 minutes!
Simple ingredients: it takes just 7 common ingredients to make these cheese roll ups.
Great for lunch: this will be your favorite recipe for a hot lunch sandwich.
🥘 Ingredients
Pizza dough: use a canned pizza dough like Pillsbury.
Deli ham: use your favorite deli ham. I prefer a cooked ham over a flavored ham
Swiss cheese: buy the thicker cheese slices (not the deli thin)
Salted butter: for flavor (no added salt will be needed)
Italian seasoning: added to the butter for flavor
Garlic powder: added to the butter for flavor
Fresh parsley: optional garnish
🔪 Instructions
- Roll the dough out onto a hard surface lightly dusted with flour to form a 13 x 9 rectangle.
- Top dough with ham slices, fully covering the dough.
- Top ham with cheese slices, cutting cheese if needed to fit.
- Roll the dough up from the bottom long side enclosing the ham and cheese. Keep the roll tight and the ham and cheese inside. Pinch the ends close.
- Using a sharp serrated knife cut the roll into 8 equal pieces. For thinner pinwheels, cut them into 10 or 12 pieces.
- Place the cut pinwheels into a 9” pie pan and cut side up. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, melt butter on high for 20 - 30 seconds in a microwave-safe measuring cup. Add garlic powder and Italian seasoning, whisking to combine. Once melted, stir to mix.
- Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the the tops of the pinwheels with butter.
- Place pan in the air fryer basket and cook at 350°f for 10 minutes or until the crust is fully cooked and golden brown. Remove from air fryer and let cool.
- Garnish with parsley (if using) and serve.
🥄 Equipment
Air fryer
Small microwave safe bowl
Serrated knife
9" pie pan
Pastry brush
Oven method
Assemble as instructed and bake in a 350 degree oven for 18 minutes, until golden brown.
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store in an airtight container in the fridge up to 4 days.
Reheat: warm leftover cheese roll-ups in the air fryer at 350 degrees for 5 minutes, or until warmed through.
📖 Variations
- Puff pastry or crescent dough can be substituted for the pizza dough.
- Use half onion powder and half garlic powder
- Spread the pizza dough with a thin layer of dijon mustard before assembling the meat and cheese layers.
- Substitute sliced deli roast beef or your favorite deli meat in place of the ham slices
- Use provolone or cheddar cheese slices in place of the swiss cheese
- Stir a little bit of worcestershire sauce into the butter mixture and sprinkle the tops of the pinwheels with poppy seeds
💭 Tips
- For best results, do not over melt the butter, doing so can cause separation of the milk and fat solids. The butter should be just melted enough so it can be stirred and will have the appearance of a cloudy liquid.
- Place a microwave food cover or a loose piece of plastic wrap over top of the butter when melting to prevent grease spatters.
📚 Related Recipes
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🍽 Serve with...
Serve hot ham and cheese pinwheels with your favorite dipping sauces at your next holiday party.
🏫 The last word
This recipe makes 8 rolls which are fairly decent sized when baked. For appetizer size rolls, cut the roll of dough into 16 equal pieces.
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📖 Recipe
Ham and Cheese Pinwheels
Equipment
- Small microwave safe bowl
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Ingredients
- 13 ounces can of pre-made pizza dough
- 15 slices deli ham , or amount to cover dough
- 10 slices Swiss cheese , or amount to cover ham
- ½ cup salted butter
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ tablespoon fresh chopped parsley , for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Roll the dough out onto a hard surface lightly dusted with flour to form a 13 x 9 rectangle.
- Top dough with ham slices, fully covering the dough. Top ham with cheese slices, cutting cheese if needed to fit.
- Roll the dough up from the bottom long side enclosing the ham and cheese. Keep the roll tight and the ham and cheese inside. Pinch the ends close.
- Using a sharp serrated knife cut the roll into 8 equal pieces. For thinner pinwheels, cut them into 10 or 12 pieces.
- Place the cut pinwheels into a 9” pie pan and cut side up. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, melt butter on high for 20 - 30 seconds in a microwave-safe measuring cup. Add garlic powder and Italian seasoning, whisking to combine.
- Once melted, stir to mix.Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the the tops of the pinwheels with butter.
- Place pan in the air fryer basket and cook at 350°f for 10 minutes or until the crust is fully cooked and golden brown.
- Remove from air fryer and let cool.Garnish with parsley (if using) and serve.
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