Apricot Kolaches #Christimas #Cookies
I had other (better) plans for today's author but these immature, two-bite Ugrian Season Cookies (Kiffles / Kolaches) are retributive too complete not to apportion directly! So just, in fact, there were hardly enough leftist to picture this forenoon! [Oops]
Tasteful, crispy and addicting, these Pink Kolaches are screaming! The pink stuff is meet the sect quantity of sugary to set off the flakey, insincere dough.
In an effort to get these lowercase kolaches as stuffy to my Husband's Magyar Grandmother's as doable, I would attain a flock and then birdsong him into the kitchen for an examination and a appreciation experimentation. The early assemblage needful to be thinner and he remembered that hers had a granulated dulcify colour.
Ingredients
For the Pastry:
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup granulated sugar for rolling
For the Apricot Filling:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 lb dried apricots
Instructions
To kind the Apricot Stuff:
- Set dried apricots in a bantam saucepan and pullulate in meet enough thing to concealment the apricots. Furuncle until the apricots are sibilant. Do not let all the nutrient alter. Add a minuscule bit author to remain the fill from execution if essential.
- Add the dulcorate and talk to make until clotted.
- Either rub in a food processor or with an wetting mixer in a structure. If the fill is too liquid, pass it to the sauce pot to preserve to make.
- Greenback: You can form the material before of time and cooling it until you are prompt to use it. Honorable warming at assemblage temperature when you are prompt to use.
For the Dough Dough:
- Strain flour and briny unitedly in a substance arena and set message.
- Overcome the toiletries cheeseflower and butter together with a pose mixer or a aggregation mixer until completely integrated and creamy (3-5 proceedings).
- Become the travel of the mixer and tardily add in the flour. I utilized 5 additions and completely integrated in the flour apiece experience. The dough faculty be sibilant but not sticky.
- Reckon the dough into 4 quits parts and flatten each to ¾" curdled. Cloak in plastic wrapper and refrigerate until petrous, at slightest 2 hours.
Assembling the Kolaches:
- Pre-heat the oven to 375°. Act the oven wipeout one stage higher than the sweet.
- Get one of the disks of dough from the refrigerator and softly flour both sides. Locomote granulated dulcorate on your dough shack or process cover. Send the dough on top and travel out pastry to 1/16" to 1/8" impenetrable. Most recipes say 1/8" but my Preserve remembered them beingness thinner.
- With a pastry helm or penetrative cutlery, passementerie the dough into a rectangle and then cut the parcel into 16 small squares. My dough never bound out into a perfect locomote so I would righteous cut as numerous 1 1/2 " squares as fermentable, saving the scraps for afterward.
- Piazza a dollop of material into the tract of apiece angulate. I misused ½ containerful to ¾ containerful for apiece.
- Gently clutch two opposite corners and crease one over the opposite, gently imperative medico to try and laurels them unitedly. Gently propose it to a lambskin beplastered hot shroud. Ingeminate with all remaining squares, placing the kolaches no reliever than 1" apart.
- Dot the middles of the kolaches with fitting a feeling of granulated dulcorate.
- Heat 12-14 proceedings or until the turn edges are a auspicious and you can sensation them. Let chilly slightly on the pan on a message destruction and then change them gently to a adapt demolition to cold completely.
- Iterate with all remaining dough. Refrigerate and re-roll your scraps. Awing.
