Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Rugelach!

My first TWD:


One of my first memories of rugelach is my grandma Anderson rolling up the bits of her pie crust after making a pie. She would spread the bits with some butter and sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar and roll them up crescent style. Now, technically that wasn't really rugelach...but it was the same idea. Fast forward 15 years later to Santa Barbara, CA and my college days. Downtown there was a gourmet deli, Pierre LaFond, that had jars and jars of different flavored Rugelach on their counter. The real deal. The hardest part was choosing which flavor to try..but hey, there was always tomorrow and another flavor.
For this TWD recipe, we have Grace
to thank for choosing Rugelach. Click on over to her site for a complete recipe and don't forget to check out the TWD site for all the other bakers.
This recipe was fairly easy...and not too complicated...and I am not one to roll things out. The only hard part was waiting for the dough to chill and then waiting again for the little crescents to chill before going into the oven.
I did change some things in the recipe. For one half of the dough, I spread some homemade fig jam that I had lingering in the fridge along with the cinnamon and sugar mixture and some chopped pecans. On the second half, I used orange marmalade and mini chocolate chips. I didn't use the cinnamon sugar mixture because I thought it might taste weird with the marmalade. I did sprinkle the tops of both with sugar.
The results...I preferred the orange marmalade/chocolate mixture. The sour slightly bitter flavor along with the chocolate was great. The fig/cinnamon/pecan mixture was pretty sweet though that is the one the kids prefer....which is fine with me...I'll just eat the other!


On another subject:

How exciting is that? I actually took that picture a couple of days ago...Whole Foods opens tomorrow at 10:00am!!!

9 comments:

Pamela said...

Enjoy your new Whole Foods! We don't have one close to us at all, and I wish we did. Your rugelach turned out really nice!

chocolatechic said...

Looks great.

Welcome to TWD.

Bungalow Barbara said...

Lovely rugelach! I love marmalade, I'll have to try that...
Welcome to TWD!

Kimberly Johnson said...

OMG - I told the exact same story about my grandmother on my blog! LOL. Your rugelach look wonderful!

ostwestwind said...

For me it was the first time eating rugelach. Yours look great

cakeflower said...

Thanks for all the lovely comments and the great welcome...I'm a little frightened of the comments section! :)

Leslie said...

Your rugelach turned out great! I haven't been able to make mine yet but I want to try your orange marmalade and chocolate chip combo. Welcome to TWD!

Nancy/n.o.e said...

Beautiful rugelach! Welcome to TWD, looking forward to seeing more.
Nancy

Nancy/n.o.e said...

Oh, and my mom always made pinwheels with the extra pie crust, butter and cinnamon sugar. Yum!
Nancy