Ingredients For Rugelach Pastries

Series Summary

Rugelach is a traditional Jewish pastry made of dough and filled with a variety of sweet ingredients. The dough for this traditional dessert can be made with cream cheese, but is typically made with no dairy ingredients so that it can be eaten with a meat meal. There are a variety of fillings that can be rolled into the flaky dough pasty, including raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, chocolate, cocoa, marzipan or apricot preserves. Rugelach pastries make great holiday cookies, but are delicious anytime of the year.

In this free video series, our expert chef will demonstrate how to make a wonderful rugelach pastry recipe. She will show you how to make two kinds of rugelach dough, one with a traditional rising yeast, and one with a quicker cold yeast. You will also learn how to make a variety of fillings for your rugelach, including a cinnamon and cocoa filling, a poppyseed filling, and a jelly walnut filling. Along with the delicious filling, our chef will also show you how to create a homemade sugar and syrup topping to cover this tasty dessert.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Rachel for Expert Village. Now I am going to show you how to make a flaky yeast dough. It has a little bit more labor involved but it is a very good dough for rugelach and let's start with the ingredients. We are going to use 4 tablespoons of sugar, 4 cups of flour, a cup of water, 2 tablespoons of oil, 2 eggs, 1 1/2 tablespoon of dry yeast, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 200 grams of margarine, a bowl to mix it in, a rolling pin and a baking sheet. You see this recipe does not call for too much sugar. It is only 4 tablespoons for 4 cups of flour. It is because the dough is not supposed to be sweet and later on we are going to fill it up with sweet fillings, all kind of different fillings which I am going to show you later on. "