Mimi's Frozen Dough Rugelach
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 batch
ingredients
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For Cookie Dough
- 1 lb butter
- 1 lb cream cheese
- 3 1⁄2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- grated orange rind (optional)
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For Filling
- 1⁄2 cup ground walnuts
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- apricot preserves
directions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
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Make cookie dough:
- Cream butter and cream cheese. Add vanilla and rind, if using.
- Mix dry ingredients (separately) and then add to creamed butter mixture.
- Mix well - use hands to work all of the dry ingredients into the wet until your hands are fairly dry.
- Divide dough into four pieces. Wrap and refrigerate until hard (3 hours or overnight).
- Roll out dough very thin. Cut into triangles about three (3) inches wide.
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Fill, Assemble and Bake Cookies:
- Combine nuts, sugar, and cinnamon.
- Smear a bit of preserves (can also use prune lekva or another thick jam) onto the cut dough. Add a bit of filling and roll triangles from the wide base towards the point.
- Place cookie on cookie sheet with the point on the bottom.
- Bake about 20 minutes until done.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
StevenHB
Hingham, Massachusetts
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