Making Sugar & Syrup Topping For Rugelach Pastries

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Rachel for Expert Village. Now I am going to show you how to make the syrup which we are going to put on top of the Rugelach. We take a cup of sugar and pour it in a pot and 3/4 cup of water. I am going to bring it to a boil. I'm mixing it so that the sugar melts and make a syrup. I am going to put afterwards 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla inside. I didn't put it yet because when it cooks, it changes a little bit of its flavor and you want the nice vanilla flavor. You should put the vanilla after we finish with boiling the sugar and water together. Now you can see it is boiling, the sugar inside is melted and I am going to cut the fire off and a little bit of vanilla into it; just a drop. Mix it up and this is our syrup. What we do with this syrup is we take the ready Rugelach, the flaky dough Rugelach and we are going to dip it in and put it on a plate to cool off. I do it with not only the plain ones but with the cinnamon and the cocoa ones too but you don't have to do these ones because they are sweet already. After we dip it we are going to let it cool off a little bit and then it is ready to be served. Another topping that I want to show you is for the cold yeast dough. Here we are going to use just powdered sugar. We are just going to sprinkle it on. It is important to put the powder sugar although you put filling to it because you remember this dough doesn't have any sugar in it so it has to have a little bit of powdered sugar on top. "