March 31, 2007

• Rugelach

  I kind of combined a bunch of recipes and just used whatever we had lying around...

  Pastry:
  1 cup (2 sticks) butter
  1 8 oz package cream cheese
  1/3 c sugar
  1 tsp vanilla
  2 c flour

  Filling:
  jam (our favorite is raspberry. We also used apple butter and plum jam, which were just fine.)
  brown sugar and cinnamon
  finely chopped nuts (walnuts are in most of the recipes I saw. But I had pecans so we tried that. I didn't think they added much)
  raisins and/or craisins (jury is still out on whether this is "too much")

  Cream together butter, cream cheese and sugar. Mix in vanilla and flour. Comes out like a rich and creamy pie crust. Divide dough up into four lumps, make each vaguely disc shaped.

  Chill dough for at least 2 hours. (Freezes fine. )

  Roll out dough into a rough circle. Spread with jam, sprinkle with a thick coating of brown sugar and cinnamon, add nuts and/or dried fruit bits.

  Cut into 16th's with a pizza cutter, roll up with the point end on the outside. (If dough is not cold enough, it is now stuck to the counter. oops.) Place on a foil lined (because they will each be sitting in a puddle of burnt jam) cookie sheet  and bake at 350 for 16-18 minutes or until they are just starting to look golden brown on the edges. (To be honest, I haven't timed them yet.)

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