Whipped Cream Frosting
Buttercream Flowers
Strawberries
Crooked Chocolate smiley
It may not be perfect, but it's the best cake I've ever made!
It's a bite sized cookie, with flavors of a pie, shape of a croissant and a pretty, pretty name. It's Rugelach. I first heard of this cookie when it became the baking pick for Tuesdays with Dorrie a couple of months back. The looks, the concept - everything was fascinating. And I've dreamed of making this cookie ever since. I ditched hundreds of recipes floating around and went straight to the master. It's Dorie Greenspan's recipe that I used, and ain't I glad I got it so perfect the very first time. So what's rugelach? It's cream-cheese pastry dough, rolled then cut into wedges, spread with jam and sugar and fillings of choice, rolled into crescents and baked. First the dough. Dorie did it in her processor, but I just went and did it by hand. Put 100 gms cream cheese and 100 gms butter out of the fridge until they were soft but still cold. Added both to a cup of plain flour (I omitted the salt because I use salted butter). Rubbed the flour and but
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For me these are PERFECT. You are brave enough to cross that hurdle.
BTW, I too sometime finish baking at 2 am. I am a night owl, dear Banker(Baker) Behna :)- read abt u at EC's.
Strawberries have started coming here, I am sure there also season has started.Do check hypercity.
Cheers,
The Variable, Crazy Over Desserts - Nachiketa
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