Serve them for dessert, enjoy with coffee or serve them with your holiday favorites like gingerbread cookies and shortbread cookies.
What is Rugelach?
Rugelach are bite-sized pastries made with butter and cream cheese dough wrapped around sweet fillings of various kinds. The dough is rolled and cut into triangles, spread with filling and each cookie is rolled up in the style of a mini crescent roll. These tasty pastries trace their origins to eastern European Jewish cuisine and are standard fare in Jewish bakeries all over the world.
How to Make Rugelach
Easy rugelach dough is a rich mixture of flour and fat. Here’s how to make this rugelach recipe: As you can see, there are multiple steps but they aren’t difficult and these pretty treats are easy to make!
To Prep Ahead
Rugelach can be made ahead. These are the 3 best ways I like to store them:
Assemble before baking You can assemble the cookies and freeze for baking later. Freeze on a cookie sheet and then transfer to freezer bags when hardened. Thaw on a cookie sheet at room temperature before baking. Freeze Dough Or, you can freeze only the dough for later use. Just roll it out, layered between two sheets of wax paper. Then roll it up, wrap in plastic, and store in a freezer bag. It will keep up to six months. Freeze Baked Cookies Bake cookies as directed below and cool completely. Freeze in an air tight container up to 4 months.
Other Delicious Rugelach Fillings
You don’t have to limit your options to my walnut and pecan filling. All kinds of yummy fillings work equally well in rugalach. Here are some popular ones:
Poppyseed pastry filling Marzipan Fruit preserves like apricot, fig or raspberry Apple with cinnamon and sugar Brown sugar-cinnamon streusel Chocolate chips
Delicious Pastry Dessert
Apple Dumplings – melt-in-your-mouth tender Baklava Cheesecake – intensely and irresistibly flavored! Easy Sopapilla Cheesecake – rich and creamy dessert! Cranberry Brie Bites – just 4 simple ingredients Apple Cheese Danish Bars – luscious treat!
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