Walnut And Brown-Sugar Rugelach

I made and ate a considerable amount of cookies in December. On the opposite hand, a mere month later, I am support within the saddle and in a suite to bake… and overeat…. extra cookies. I level-headed a possess half a dozen restaurant and bakery strategies to piece with all of you from my Unique York outing nonetheless it gave the affect higher to launch out the week on Whipped with a comforting recipe for something luscious.

Often, I proclaim my everlasting like for buttermilk, my most favorite ingredient. On the opposite hand, I genuinely possess determined that cream cheese is a conclude 2nd. My taste buds cheer for nearly all the pieces made with cream cheese – cookie doughs with cream cheese, pastries stuffed with cream cheese, brownies swirled with cream cheese, taco dips layered with cream cheese…. the checklist goes on.

These cookies had been so enjoyable to make, extremely tasty and genuinely pretty.

Walnut and Brown-Sugar Rugelach

From Day after day Meals, December 2007

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 bar (8 oz) cream cheese, room temperature

2 T granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups all-cause flour, plus extra for rolling

1 immense egg, calmly crushed

1 cup walnuts, finely chopped

1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar

In meals processor, mix butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar, and salt till properly blended. Add flour and pulse lawful till dough kinds. Divide dough in half; flatten into disks, and wrap every in plastic. Refrigerate till company, no lower than 2 hours and as a lot as 2 days, or freeze as a lot as three months. (constantly thaw earlier than baking).

Preheat oven to 350 levels, with racks on higher half and lower thirds. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set up apart. In itsy-bitsy bowl, mix egg with 1 teaspoon water and make an egg wash.

Working with one disk at a time, station dough on calmly floured parchment paper and roll out into an 11inch circle (about 1/4 gallop thick) dusting with flour calmly as important. Utilizing a immense dinner plate as a book, minimize spherical dough to make a extra special circle. Neat off extra and discard scraps. Bruch circles with egg wash, dividing evenly, sprinkle with walnuts and brown sugar.

Utilizing a interesting knife or pizza cutter, minimize every circle into 16 equal triangles. Starting from wide spoil, roll up every triangle of dough. Region on lined baking sheets, seam aspect down. Bruch rolls with egg wash.

Bake till golden brown, 30 to 32 minutes. Transfer rugelach to a wire rack to cold fully.

Variation: With a few of the dough, I skipped the egg wash, walnuts and brown sugar and old-fashioned raspberry preserves instead. As soon as they got here out of the oven, I sprinkled them with powdered sugar and so they had been unbelievable!

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