Tuesdays with Dorie: Rugelach with Four Fillings from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Rugelach with four fillings is a perfect festive cookie (but I’ve had some mishaps in the past (see here, though I learned a few things and applied them here).

Today’s post comes to you courtesy of working around a weird schedule of trying to get Christmas shopping done, working around French opening hours, last-minute work calls and chasing down missing luggage (!). Actually, this stop-and-start schedule worked out well because the dough got a lot of chill time in the fridge/ freezer, and because I was a bit pressed for time, I “played around” with the filling and stumbled across a much easier way to fill and roll them.

I made one of the four fillings (the classic jam/ fruit and nuts), but instead of chopping everything finely and layering it on top of the jam layer, I popped all the chocolate, fruit and nuts in a mini food processor (<<< affiliate link but this is honestly one of the most-used items in my kitchen) and then mixed them into the jam (apricot and marmalade mixed) before spreading. It worked like magic!

On very cold, rolled-out dough, this spread very easily, and I was able to use a pizza cutter to divide the dough into 16 triangles that I rolled into little crescents that I also refrigerated before I egg-washed and baked them.

These were SO good, held their shape and we ate most of them in one sitting!

But these for breakfast post a very early, very wet run this morning were also excellent!

Bonus? I still have half the dough in the fridge that I’ll bake off for neighbours later today!

My tips from working with this recipe:

1. Handle the pastry as little as possible. It’s a soft one and will warm up quickly if over-handled, making it difficult to work with (rolling, etc…)

2. Definitely blitz all your filling (jam, nuts, chocolate and dried fruit) in a food processor.

3. Definitely chill the dough before you roll it out then again, once it’s rolled out. Then again, after you’ve filled and rolled the cookies, before you eggwash and bake them.

Get the recipe for Rugelach with Four Fillings on p 189 of Baking with Dorie or a version of it here.

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