Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels

5 from 1 vote

Meet your new favorite spicy chicken cheesy finger food! These yummy Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels are amazing! Filled with a mixture of shredded chicken, smooth cream cheese, sharp blue cheese, and cheddar with a healthy dose of buffalo wing sauce you won’t be able to eat just one!

Course: Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 372kcal

Author: Joanna Cismaru

Ingredients

8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature, such as Philadelphia
¼ cup Buffalo sauce
½ cup blue cheese crumbled
1 cup cheddar cheese shredded, or Colby jack, Monterey jack
¼ teaspoon salt or to taste
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon black pepper or to taste
3 cups cooked chicken both white and dark meat, from a rotisserie chicken
3 green onions finely chopped
6 medium tortillas

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Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, add the cream cheese, Buffalo sauce, blue cheese, cheddar cheese, salt, garlic powder and black pepper. Using a hand mixer, mix until well combined.
Add the cooked chicken and green onions and using a spatula, stir it well until the chicken is throughly incorporated in the cheese mixture.
Spread the cheese/chicken mixture over each tortilla, dividing it equally between all tortillas. Roll up the tortillas and place them on a plate. Cover them with plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour up to 24 hours, for the cheese to firm up.
When ready to serve, cut them up into 1-inch pieces and serve.

Notes

Room temperature cheese. The cream cheese needs to be soft to make the cheesy buffalo chicken mixture properly. So you’ll want to take it out of the fridge about an hour before starting the recipe. You can soften it up in the microwave but do it very slowly because you don’t want it to melt.
Chill 24 hours. The buffalo chicken tortilla rolls must be fully chilled before they can be cut and served. If you try to cut them too soon they will not hold their pinwheel shape. So it’s really important to be patient and leave the rolls in the fridge for the full 24 hours.
Use a serrated knife. For nice clean and neat pinwheels use a serrated knife to cut the rolls. The next best option is to use a very sharp chef’s knife.
Already cut and rolled Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days when covered in plastic wrap or put in an airtight container. They do not freeze well.

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