Rugelach

Name: Rugelach
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 44
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 227 grams cream cheese, softened; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters loosely packed golden raisins, chopped; 44 servings Milk for brushing cookies; 237 milliliters apricot preserves or raspberry jam; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters sticks unsalted butter, softened; 113 grams 1/4 cups walnuts , finely chopped

Rugelach is a vegetarian recipe with 44 servings. One serving contains 281 calories, 9g of protein, and 16g of fat. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have walnuts, golden raisins, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Whisk together flour and salt in a bowl. Beat together butter and cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until combined well.

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Cream Cheese

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Whisk

Bowl

Add flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. Gather dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap, then flatten (in wrap) into a roughly 7- by 5-inch rectangle. Chill until firm, 8 to 24 hours.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Wooden Spoon

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line bottom of a 1- to 1 1/2-inch-deep large shallow baking pan with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Pan

Oven

Cut dough into 4 pieces. Chill 3 pieces, wrapped in plastic wrap, and roll out remaining piece into a 12- by 8-inch rectangle on a well-floured surface with a floured rolling pin.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Rolling Pin

Transfer dough to a sheet of parchment, then transfer to a tray and chill while rolling out remaining dough in same manner, transferring each to another sheet of parchment and stacking on tray.

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Dough

Whisk 1/2 cup sugar with cinnamon.

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Cinnamon

Sugar

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Whisk

Arrange 1 dough rectangle on work surface with a long side nearest you.

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Dough

Spread 1/4 cup preserves evenly over dough with offset spatula.

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Preserves

Spread

Dough

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Offset Spatula

Sprinkle 1/4 cup raisins and a rounded 1/4 cup walnuts over jam, then sprinkle with 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar.

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Cinnamon Sugar

Raisins

Walnuts

Jam

Using parchment as an aid, roll up dough tightly into a log.

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Dough

Roll

Place, seam side down, in lined baking pan, then pinch ends closed and tuck underneath. Make 3 more logs in same manner and arrange 1 inch apart in pan.

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Baking Pan

Brush logs with milk and sprinkle each with 1 teaspoon of remaining granulated sugar. With a sharp large knife, make 3/4-inch-deep cuts crosswise in dough (not all the way through) at 1-inch intervals. (If dough is too soft to cut, chill until firmer, 20 to 30 minutes.)

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Granulated Sugar

Dough

Milk

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Knife

Bake until golden, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool to warm in pan on a rack, about 30 minutes, then transfer logs to a cutting board and slice cookies all the way through.

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