Home Baked Rugelach for Tuesdays with Dorie

It was a first!  My first time to bake Rugelach sliced from a rolled dough spread with Apricot Lekvar, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, chopped dried fruits and nuts.  The  slices from the rolled dough were placed in the oven almost naked-just a thin egg wash brushed over the top before slicing and baking.  My rolls of rugelach were not rolled in additional sugar and cinnamon as the recipe calls for,  a vanity move as I wanted to show off their lovely fruit and nut filling.  I raided my quilting fabric stash to use in these photos, I hate to admit it but haven't tackled any major sewing projects since starting Patty's Food  three years ago this March!  Originally I started posting recipes to keep track of them but after about a year of just sharing recipes I started writing more in my posts and kept on going...  Now I'm participating in two online cooking/baking groups, French Fridays with Dorie and Tuesdays with Dorie.  Today it's Tuesday with Dorie's turn with Home Baked Rugelach.  You can find this week's recipe for Rugelach from Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan here at Jessica's- My Baking Heart and at Margaret's-The Urban Hiker.  Just a few notes on my experience with the recipe.  I found the cream cheese dough to be tender when chilled and very easy to roll out.  The Apricot Lekvar recipe had a wonderful flavor and consistency when spread on the dough but leaked out of the bottom while baking making a big mess on the baking sheets.  The filling turned a little fruit leathery after cooling which I didn't expect.  The previous times I made rugelach I used jam as the spread on the rolled out dough which in my opinion bakes into a better more tender cookie.  So, while I like the idea of making levkar, I wasn't overly pleased with it's texture after baking.  Note to self, next time just eat the homade apricot lekvar with a spoon and don't use for baking unless you're making fruit leather, a novel idea!

Isn't this little scrap of fabric cheerful?  Seeing this sweet fabric inspires me to start sewing again, especially for my granddaughter Gracie, think of all the outfits I could make and they're calorie free, imagine that!  My plan is to share a few recipes from both groups each month plus a few of my own kitchen creations.  I hope you will consider baking/cooking along with me and please feel free to email if you have any questions.  Please check out the other links to homemade rugelach at Tuesdays with Dorie.