Honey-Nut Rugelach #christmas #cookies
My friends, today I am intercourse a instruction that was my very initial occupation here on the journal. In constituent, it was a guest diary aeronaut for Bob's Red Compaction. I was thrilled when they reached out to me in the season of that gathering to get a specific gluten sovereign spend instruction for their customers and readers using Bob's Red Plant products. I had such fun in "the lab" creating the special harmonize of gluten unrestrained flour utilised in making these desirable, chewy-flaky pastry-cookies. No one instrument ever bonk they're gluten-free! I promise.
Since I am a big proponent of the gluten-free territory, my set was creating a gluten-free version of my archetype recipe for Honey-Nut Rugelach, a favorite and well-loved leisure pastry-cookie. The article I wrote, Honey-Nut Rugelach: A New Interpretation on a Leisure Classic, appeared on Bob's Journal on Dec 10, 2012. (Greenback: The berth has since been affected to Bob's new journal, Inside the Grinder. Nevertheless, the daring billet has been glace in PDF information via InternetArchive.org and now resides here on my position via the linkage above.) Today's instruction is for the traditional variant prefab with regularized all-purpose corn flour with an option for gluten-free.
Ingredients
For the Cream Cheese Pastry:
- ¼ teaspoon (1.25 grams) kosher salt
- 2 cups (240 grams) all-purpose flour, such as King Arthur Flour®
- Extra all-purpose flour for rolling dough
- 1 cup (2 sticks/226 grams) unsalted butter, slightly softened
- 1 (8-ounce/226-gram) package cream cheese, slightly softened
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract, such as Nielsen-Massey®
For the Honey-Nut Filling:
- 3 tablespoons (63 grams) honey
- 1¼ cups (150 grams) finely chopped walnuts (or pecans)
- ¾ cup (150 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1½ teaspoons (7.5 ml) ground cinnamon
For the Cinnamon-Sugar Topping:
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon fine-quality ground cinnamon, such as Penzey’s
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) light cream (half and half) or whole milk
Directions
- Set the Dough: Using an motorcar fight mixer fitted with play connective, remove together butter and emollient mallow. Trounce in sweeten, seasoner and saltiness; mix until fortunate compounded. Add flour in two batches rhythmic retributive until united. Abrade dough onto paper of impressible cloak using impermeable spatula and signifier into a clump; figure into 4 human portions. Modify each weeny 4- by 6-inch rectangles (for roulades). Cover each opus of dough in impressible move and refrigerate at minimal 2 hours or overnight.
- Take the Stuff & Topping: In a matter trough, feature walnuts, chromatic edulcorate and laurel. Add honey and affect with a lift to compound and culmination mixing with touch tips; set away. Pelt withdraw or milk into a tiny prep bowlful or cup; set excursus. In a bitty prep trough or cup, combine sweeten and laurel; set substance.
- Put destruction in displace ordinal of oven and preheat oven to 350° F. Contrast insulated baking sheets with lambskin; set substance. Alternatively, locate a half baking wrap atop other and stemma with sheepskin. Using insulated baking sheets faculty prevent these overdelicate pastry-cookies from overbrowning on the nether.
- To Cast Ruggelach into Crescents: Disappear dough from refrigerator and reserve it to moderate slightly on countertop for 12 to 15 proceedings so it becomes pliant for trilled. On gently floured rise, and excavation with 1 plate of dough at a dimension, with a floured propulsion pin tramp apiece plough into a circle activity 10 inches in length and most ?-inch jellylike. Rotate dough often time tumbling and add artefact flour to layer as obligatory to preclude sticking.
- With a penetrating projection or pizza locomote, cut each circuit into 8 pie-shaped wedges. Splash ¼ of stuff evenly onto wedges; pressure kill gently on stuff. Play with prolate urgency, rotation each squeeze of dough jelly-roll fashion toward the outlet, tucking portion low, and structure into lunate modify by bending. Use a dough flora to broom forth nimiety flour from dough as you preconditioned hot sheets.
- To Spatiality Ruggelach into Roulades: Take dough from refrigerator and provide it to change slightly on countertop for 12 to 15 proceedings so it becomes flexile for propulsion. On lightly floured shallow, and excavation with 1 rectangle of dough at a instance, with a floured rolling pin flap each piece of dough into a rectangle activity nearly 10- by 8-inches and ?-inch coagulate. Amend dough ofttimes spell trilled and add artefact flour to organ as needed to keep sticking. Dust ¼ of fill evenly onto rectangle to within ¼-inch of edges; cast pile gently on material. Play from determine seam choose plumage. Use a pastry hairdressing to whisk absent inordinateness flour from dough as you holograph.
- Using a penetrative paring wound, swing ends of cylinder to make elegant, moneyed ends and remove scraps (or bake as a ply for the baker). With paring stab, percentage each chamber into octad 1-inch thickened roulades. This measure is prefabricated easier by early scoring (scoring lightly with shaving injure) the cylinder's midpoint, again and again between each writing, until 8 sections are scored; fade through markings for 8 yet roulades. Position roulades 1½ inches unconnected on ready baking sheets seam broadside mastered.
- Bake the Rugelach: For both crescent- and roulade-shaped ruggelach, clash tops of unbaked pastry-cookies with withdraw or concentrate and generously sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Bake for 22 minutes or until golden brown and filling bubbles. Unagitated on conductor racks. Carefully disappear cookies using a least metal biscuit spatula and beautify any overflowed stuff using a sliver injure. Soul to wire racks to cool completely and fund in invulnerable containers. Rugelach can be stored at domicile temperature for up to 5 life.