‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry
‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, ‘rugelach’ cream cheese pastry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

I took a rugelach recipe and invented my own filling with cream cheese instead of fruit spread. It came out so tasty I had to share it! Rugelach is a delicious and classic cream cheese pastry filled with a variety of nuts, fruit, preserves, and cinnamon sugar.

‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ‘rugelach’ cream cheese pastry using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry:
  1. Make ready <Dough Ingredients>
  2. Prepare 60 g Cream Cheese *softened
  3. Get 60 g Butter *softened
  4. Prepare 1 Egg Yolk
  5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  6. Get 1 cup Plain Flour
  7. Take Powdered Sugar for dusting *optional
  8. Get <Filling Ingredients>
  9. Get 1/4 cup Apricot Jam
  10. Take 1/4 cup Walnuts, Almonds or Pecans *finely chopped
  11. Prepare 1/4 cup Sultanas *coarsely chopped
  12. Take 2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
  13. Get 1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Add salt and flour and mix until smooth. Divide dough into three equal parts. This cream cheese rugelach recipe calls for sour cream for a tender dough and a rich raisin filling. This tender, flaky cream cheese rugelach recipe came to author Tracey Zabar via chef Jason Weiner of Almond in Brooklyn who in turn acquired it from grandmother Risa Smith at a baby shower.

Instructions to make ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry:
  1. Combine softened Butter and softened Cream Cheese in a bowl, add Egg Yolk and Vanilla, and mix well.
  2. Add Plain Flour and mix as you cut the butter mixture into flour. Use your hands to bring the mixture together into dough. *Note: If the mixture is too soft, add 1-2 tablespoons extra flour.
  3. Make filling by mixing all the ingredients.
  4. Preheat oven to 170°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
  5. On a lightly floured flat surface, use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to a large 3mm thick disc larger than 30cm in diameter.
  6. Cut the disc into 16 wedges, spread the filling mixture and roll up each wedge from the outside edge.
  7. Place on the prepared baking tray and bake for 30 minutes or until golden.
  8. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Dust with Powdered Sugar.

Rugelach are the most perfect, tender, crescent shaped cookies that I have loved forever. Fill them with everything from chocolate to jam and nuts in no. Rugelach, Ashkenazim, Kipfel, and Cream Cheese. Rugelach nowadays is undoubtedly a recipe tied to Jewish cuisine, but it wasn't necessarily always that way. You might even say, in fact, that the reason we have rugelach is because the Ashkenazim were in the right place at the right time.

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