Tuesdays with Dorie DC: Friendship Cookies
January 5, 2021 at 5:41 pm | Posted in cookies & bars, DC, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 5 CommentsTags: baking, cookies
Happy 2021– to celebrate another year of baking cookies with my friends, I present you with a plate of Friendship Cookies! These are really rugelach, with a flaky cream cheese dough filled with lots of things that play well together. I had a just little bloop of Philly that was exactly enough to make the dough for a quarter-recipe of these cookies. Not getting to invite friends for cookie parties and the “use what ya got” challenge are two 2020 trends that seem to be continuing into this year, so a smaller amount was just fine with me. The one downside to the downsize is that my cookies were a bit squat. The dough is rolled into a circle that’s spread with the filling and cut like a pizza into triangles, which are then individually spiraled into the rugelach shape. Since I was working with a smaller piece of dough, my rolled-out circle was a smaller diameter and as such, my triangles weren’t long enough for me to get the extra loop in. I don’t know if that makes any sense unless you’ve made the recipe, but you can see that there is something just a bit off about the way these look. You may have to look closely, because I tried to distract the eye with some rainbow sugar sprinkle.
I filled my cookies with cranberry jam (and by that I mean leftover cranberry sauce), boozy golden raisins, toasted walnuts and cinnamon sugar. I had to leave my very best friend out of these cookies…I could tell there just wasn’t going to be any room for chopped chocolate with my smaller dough round…the filling that I already had in there was basically busting out! It’s all good though. These were delicious as-is, and that chocolate will no doubt get used another time.
For the recipe, see Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll.
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How could you leave your best friend out of these haha?!! I think yours look just fine and I love the festive touch with the sprinkles!
Comment by isthisakeeper— January 6, 2021 #
Happy New Year! These look great – love the sprinkles.
Comment by Cakelaw— January 6, 2021 #
I can’t see anything but lovely cookies and rainbow sprinkles!! ❤ Happy New Year Steph!
Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— January 7, 2021 #
Happy new year. I admire your goal to minify as Mardi calls it. I noticed the sprinkles right away. I wish you a healthy new year.
Comment by Diane Zwang— January 9, 2021 #
happy and healthy new year to you!!
Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— January 9, 2021 #