Though rugelach is enjoyed year-round, this fruit-and-nut pastry is especially popular during Hanukkah. Cream cheese in the cookie dough -- which is chilled for hours before it is rolled out and filled with apricot preserves, currants, walnuts, and raisins -- helps produce an extra-flaky crust.
These Chocolate Rugelach are buttery, light, and incredibly flaky.
This decadent cookie starts with a cream cheese-based dough and whatever filling you can dream up. Honey-walnut or chocolate are good places to start!
Soft and chewy lemon cream cheese cookies with a classic vanilla icing. Perfect for a dessert or holiday.
I've had many cinnamon rolls in my life, but none of them have ever come close to how soft and fluffy these are.
Kleicha - Date Cookies (كليجة)
Rugelach cookies are both savory and sweet. They have a tender flaky pastry dough exterior and a sweet filling made of brown sugar, walnuts, cinnamon and a drizzle of honey.
I got this recipe from my friend Laura, who is an expert baker. We've been making cookies together every year for Christmas since we were i...
I first tasted pistachio cookies in Italy, about two years ago. My husband and I were searching for Il Gelato di San Crispino that was supposed to serve Rome’s best gelato when we chanced u…
Custard Mochi (Daifuku) is a sweet and chewy Japanese dessert! Made with custard wrapped in glutinous rice cake, it is a treat you won't be able to resist. While it's traditionally eaten around the Japanese New Year, the sweet treat can be enjoyed at any time of the year!
These Italian Christmas Cookies (Cuccidati) are filled with figs, walnuts, raisins, and other goodness. Perfect any time of the year!
These scrumptious ruffle biscuits from an 80-year-old recipe prove good things last forever.
These Hungarian Nut Roll Cookies are a flakey, cream cheese crust wrapped around a homemade walnut filling. The filling is sweet, crunchy, and caramelized around the edges!
This egg-free recipe for Polish vanilla cookies, or ciasteczka waniliowe, is made with ground walnuts and vanilla bean. It's a perfect Christmas cookie.
Vasilopita, or Greek New Year's Bread, is a sweet yeasted egg bread scented with orange and traditionally served on New Year's day. A coin is hidden inside and whoever gets it has good luck for the year.
Nanaimo Bars - building a better version. Try this revamped version of the classic Canadian treat with a more substantial base layer and an improved filling.
The kouign-amann is pronounced "queen a-mahn" and is from Brittany, France. It's like a cross between a croissant and a palmier, with layer after layer of buttery, flaky pastry on the inside, yet caramelized with ever-so-slightly-burnt sugar on the outside.
Kleicha - Date Cookies (كليجة)
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with these delightful rolled cookies, generously filled with a blend of date spread and cinnamon.Kosher, Pareve
I got this recipe from my friend Laura, who is an expert baker. We've been making cookies together every year for Christmas since we were i...
Halva is a delicious fudgy candy, made with sesame paste (tahini) and honey, that comes from the Middle East.
Flaky little pastries filled with fruit, cheese, nut, or poppy seed pastes. Polish cream cheese cookies only take 30 minutes of prep time to enjoy.
Kolacky are cream cheese pastries that you can fill with your favorite fruit jam. You may want to double this recipe — these holiday treats go fast!
German butter cookies are good throughout the year but of course make also an ideal Christmas cookie. They are very easy to make.
A step-by-step photo tutorial on how to make the perfect French croissant.
In honor of tomorrow being New Year's Day, I knew I had to repost my Greek Lucky New Year's Cake (Vasilopita). I'm not one to repost previous posts, but this is a tradition in my family/culture that I look forward to every year...so I thought maybe you would like make it too! Side note: This
Traditional Greek Christmas cookies! Learn to make Kourambiethes and bring a little Greek flair to the holidays.
Peach cookies that are almost too pretty to eat. You can fill the cookies with Nutella or pastry cream instead of the peach jam if you prefer.
These traditional sweet Greek honey puffs are one of my favourite desserts. So I was excited to prepare this dairy free Lenten alternative, which is just as delicious as the traditional Greek honey puffs!
Flaky little pastries filled with fruit, cheese, nut, or poppy seed pastes. Polish cream cheese cookies only take 30 minutes of prep time to enjoy.
While I was in Greece I got to try a few new Greek treats and one of my favorites was galaktoboureko. Galaktoboureko (aka milk börek) is a custard pie that is wrapped in phyllo dough
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you have been well. I promise, I am not trying to be an “inspired by” type of recipe blog, but I “blame” my curiosity towards such recipes s…
Light, buttery shortbread with a delicate lemon flavor.
I've had the recipe for these crispy cinnamon-sugar roll-ups for years. They're one of my family's favorites and so easy to make. We enjoy them at breakfast with a cup of coffee. —Emily Engel, Quill Lake, Saskatchewan
Classic poppy seed rugelach cookie recipe. This delicate, flaky cream cheese cookie is rolled and cut so a spiral of the poppy seed filling is visible, and the flavor fills every bite. Other traditional rugelach fillings include chocolate, dried fruit, and nuts.
This tahini halva recipe is made with simple ingredients. A dense, rich sweet treat that is nut-based with so many variations. Halva is eaten as a dessert or an energy-boosting breakfast.
