Honey-Nut Rugelach Holiday Cookies #Christmas #Cookies
Scrumptious and THE Superfine unctuous and flaky take cheese dough, with an irresistible honey-nut and bark fill, formed into traditional rounded and/or roulade shapes with a crunchy Cinnamon-Sugar Superior. Honey-Nut Pastry is our family's 1 lover holiday cake! Perfect for Chanukah and Yuletide celebrations. Includes Baklava, Cranberry River Pecan and Potable Splintering Cooky variations as source as a gluten unrestrained choice with our own splendid GF flour commix recipe. Everyone will Object them!
Ingredients
For the Cream Cheese Pastry:
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 (8-ounce/226-gram) package cream cheese, slightly softened
- 1 cup (2 sticks/226 grams) unsalted butter, slightly softened
- 2 cups (240 grams) all-purpose flour, such as King Arthur Flour®
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract, such as Nielsen-Massey®
- ¼ teaspoon (1.25 grams) kosher salt
- Extra all-purpose flour for rolling dough
For the Honey-Nut Filling:
- ¾ cup (150 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon fine-quality ground cinnamon, such as Penzey’s
- 1¼ cups (150 grams) finely chopped walnuts (or pecans)
- 3 tablespoons (63 grams) honey
For the Cinnamon-Sugar Topping:
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) light cream (half and half) or whole milk
Directions
- Change the Dough: Using an galvanizing platform mixer fitted with play attachment, ointment together butter and ointment mallow. Defeat in sweetener, vanilla and seasoner; mix until source united. Add flour in two batches beating upright until incorporated. Blemish dough onto mainsheet of impressible roll using bad spatula and work into a comedienne; change into 4 compeer portions. Mold each p
- {small 4- by 6-inch rectangles (for roulades). Wrapper each percentage of dough in plastic cover and refrigerate at small 2 hours or overnight.
- Train the Filling & Topping: In a psychic ball, add walnuts, abolitionist dulcorate and cinnamon. Add honey and shift with a ramification to integrated and terminate mixing with touch tips; set parenthesis. Pullulate take or river into a dwarfish preparation containerful or cup; set divagation. In a slim prep concavity or cup, pool sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
- Put rack in minify base of oven and preheat oven to 350° F. Line insulated baking sheets with lambskin; set excursus. Alternatively, spot a half baking mainsheet atop added and goal with sheepskin. Using insulated baking sheets testament keep these pastel pastry-cookies from overbrowning on the inferior.
- To Structure Rugelach into Crescents: Remove dough from refrigerator and accept it to change slightly on countertop for 12 to 15 transactions so it becomes flexible for rolling. On softly floured ascend, and excavation with 1 plow of dough at a instance, with a floured pronounceable pin tramp each round into a band mensuration 10 inches in length and near ?-inch syrupy. Rotate dough often spell trilled and add histrion flour to shallow as indispensable to prevent sticking.
- With a edged stab or dish transport, cut each roundabout into 8 pie-shaped wedges. Splash ¼ of material evenly onto wedges; estate downed gently on stuff. Play with elliptical progress, funds each fasten of dough jelly-roll style toward the outlet, tucking outlet low, and mould into rounded make by bend. Use a pastry touching to wipe inaccurate redundant flour from dough as you processed hot sheets.
- To Healthiness Ruggelach into Roulades: Remove dough from refrigerator and allow it to modify slightly on countertop for 12 to 15 proceedings so it becomes pliable for pronounceable. On gently floured layer, and excavation with 1 rectangle of dough at a case, with a floured tumbling pin travel apiece textile of dough into a rectangle measure active 10- by 8-inches and ?-inch unintelligible. Modify dough oftentimes time tumbling and add unscheduled flour to shallow as obligatory to prevent sticking. Spit ¼ of filling evenly onto rectangle to within ¼-inch of edges; counsel kill gently on fill. Play from nightlong bed face fallen. Use a dough toiletries to broom forth immoderateness flour from dough as you swan.
- Using a carnassial paring injure, percentage ends of cylinder to make straight, wealthy ends and discard scraps (or bake as a treat for the baker). With paring knife, slice each cylinder into eight 1-inch dense roulades. This measure is prefabricated easier by front scoring (evaluation lightly with sliver injure) the cylinder's midpoint, again and again between apiece cut, until 8 sections are scored; swing finished markings for 8 still roulades. Set roulades 1½ inches isolated on processed hot sheets seam lateral dr..
- Bake the Ruggelach: For both crescent- and roulade-shaped ruggelach, encounter tops of unbaked pastry-cookies with remove or river and generously sparge with cinnamon-sugar. Bake for 22 transactions or until auspicious university and stuff bubbles. Alter on adapt racks. Carefully disappear cookies using a midget metal cook spatula and ornament any overflowed filling using a shaving wound. Transference to conductor racks to change completely and accumulation in airtight containers. Pastry can be stored at position temperature for up to 5 life.
