Time for Tuesdays With Dorie again! This week the recipe, chosen by Grace at Piggy’s Cooking Journal, is Rugelach from pages 150-151 of “Baking: From My Home To Yours”, by Dorie Greenspan. These were fun to make and are quite delicious. Dorie says to make the recipe your own by adding or changing and so that’s what I did. I changed the recommended raspberry or apricot jam to (of course) cherry- this time using Chokecherry Jam. I changed the currants to finely chopped dried Montmorency Cherries, used Alpaco Valrhona 66% bittersweet chocolate chopped finely and slivered almonds for the nuts. I think the combination is delicious. Rick called me to say he wished he’d taken more than two for his morning break at work. I think that’s a winner!
As usual, I didn’t have room in my fridge for a baking tray so I wrapped them well and put them outside in the cold on the hood of my Jeep to chill before baking. Luckily my neighbors are used to such wackiness from me and don’t call to inquire as to why I have foods in various stages as hood ornaments. Mind you- this only works in Winter- okay cold Fall. I could probably have let them chill a bit longer but it was approaching 9:00pm and I had other things to do. On baking two of mine fell apart but we sacrificed them to the tasting Gods and considered it good. I invite you to go on over to the TWD blogroll and check out all the other tasty treats there. A special thanks to Laurie from Quirky Cupcake for starting TWD, to Grace for choosing the Rugelach and ultimately to Dorie for such a great book!
wow, you chilled the dough on car hood? that’s so interesting!
You’ve rolled up the rugelach nicely, great job!
Ohhh, chocolate and cherries. These look amazingly delicious.
They look perfect, and your photos are stunning. Well done!
These look fantastic. And love the cup and green napkin to set them off. Perfect with tea or coffee. I like your filling options and the photos are great.
I love your photos! What a yummy treat!!
They look great, I really love the delicate tea cup.
These look heavenly, Gabi!
Gimme one! haha
Your rugelah are picture perfect!! Your substitutions sound delish
Delightful with chocolate and cherry and those lovely tea cups!
That’s such an inviting photo Gabi! I just want to slip in on your chair and share this all with you.
Your rugelach look delicious! I can imagine the lack of space in the fridge, I have that problem all the time!!
Sacrifices to the tasting gods – I’ll have to remember that one.
I used to put things outside to chill, well that was when I lived in a cold climate!!
Food as hood ornaments – I see a new trend!
I’d love to finish what you set out for your photo shoot. Looks very inviting!