Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, ‘rugelach’ cream cheese pastry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Cream the cheese and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light. Rugelach is a delicious and classic cream cheese pastry filled with a variety of nuts, fruit, preserves, and cinnamon sugar. This is an easy rugelach recipe that breaks down and simplifies the steps so everyone can make it with ease!
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ‘rugelach’ cream cheese pastry using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry:
- Take <Dough Ingredients>
- Get 60 g Cream Cheese *softened
- Make ready 60 g Butter *softened
- Prepare 1 Egg Yolk
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Make ready 1 cup Plain Flour
- Get Powdered Sugar for dusting *optional
- Make ready <Filling Ingredients>
- Make ready 1/4 cup Apricot Jam
- Prepare 1/4 cup Walnuts, Almonds or Pecans *finely chopped
- Get 1/4 cup Sultanas *coarsely chopped
- Take 2 tablespoons Brown Sugar
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
In a mixing bowl or food processor, cream the butter and cream cheese together. Add the pinch of salt and sugar. Beat in the flour, a little at a time. Knead the dough lightly until all the flour is incorporated.
Instructions to make ‘Rugelach’ Cream Cheese Pastry:
- Combine softened Butter and softened Cream Cheese in a bowl, add Egg Yolk and Vanilla, and mix well.
- 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.
- Make filling by mixing all the ingredients.
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- 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.
- Cut the disc into 16 wedges, spread the filling mixture and roll up each wedge from the outside edge.
- Place on the prepared baking tray and bake for 30 minutes or until golden.
- Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Dust with Powdered Sugar.
Variations: Before putting the filling on the dough, use a pastry brush to layer apricot jam as well as brown sugar. You may also make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and roll the rugelach in this prior to putting them on the cookie sheets. Add the butter, cream cheese, and sour cream. Pulse until there are pea-sized crumbs throughout. See photo above for a visual.
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