Thursday, November 4, 2010

P&Q for December 2010

I'm looking forward to taking on next month's challenge: Maple-Pecan Medjool Date Rugelach. I have never made these pastries before but I've heard good things about them. I also happen to love Medjool dates :o)

If you have any comments or questions regarding this recipe, please post them in the comment section of this post so that we can help each other out. Thanks!

14 comments:

  1. Great idea Hanaâ!
    (My copy of the book is in da house btw so I can officially bake from the book now!)

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  2. I made them!! They don't look too picturesque but gosh they are good!! I wish I'd filled them all with the nut/maple/sugar. Instead I chose to use poppyseed filling and jam on a couple.

    The dough is a breeze to come together and very easy to work with, just make sure to chill it long enough.

    Anyone made them yet? Are yours also looking a little bleak?

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  3. I have not made them yet, but will this week - I have the dates in my supermarket list ... so its on!

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  4. Good to hear that they're tasty. Thanks for the tip on refrigerating the dough long enough. I already have a big box of Medjool dates at home, however, I don't think I will get to them during the week. So I will be baking them this weekend instead.

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  5. I found these step-by-step pictures for making Rugelach on the King Arthur Flour blog and thought I'd share. I've never made Rugelach so it's nice to see what the dough and the final product looks like. I hope this helps you too!

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  6. Hanaa.thanks for the link.. I never made them before either and it gave me an idea of how to go about it... I need to work on my visualization capabilities... they never work! I guess I'm a picture girl :)

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  7. Pictures are always good! I never forget the first time I saw someone "lightly" flour their work surface in order to roll cookie dough..... Gone were my fears of rolling dough, I suddenly understood why my dough always stuck. :-D One can flour too "lightly"

    Hanaa I dont understand how to subscribe to the comments... when I click on the link I get a page of blabber and then? (Sorry! *blush*)

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  8. WOw! It looks like I did it the right way then! My dough looked exactly like that and the finished rugelach look the same! (So I guess that's the way the are supposed to look after all! Happy dance!)

    Ah.. I see a little red "subscribe by email in the right hand corner.. problem solved!

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  9. I'm getting ready to start on these, subbing in dark corn syrup for maple syrup- I don't have anything but sugar free maple syrup and I KNOW that if I don't do these right now, I won't get to them until I'm in a super hurry later on! Let you know how they roll! Ladies- you should enter the giveaway on my blog- so few entries!!

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  10. These are so good! I cut my first circle incorrectly (into eight portions rather than twelve), but no complaints about bigger cookies.

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  11. @Margot: that is too funny. I made a test batch with one circle last night and I too cut the dough into 8 instead of 12 portions, ha ha. These are soooo good. You definitely can't eat just one! Will be baking the rest today.

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  12. eh.. me too! I couldn't figure out how to cut 12 ánd have room to roll!
    (I suppose my circles weren't big enough..)

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  13. I made mine!!! Must laugh because for some reason I got it in my head that I was suppose to cut them into 8!! So I did...all of them.
    My post is here:
    http://love2cooksweets.blogspot.com/2010/12/abc-maple-pecan-medjool-date-rugelach.html

    Everyone loved them.

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  14. So sorry! Mine is coming up asap! Had to work out of town for two days and set it to autopost which it didn't.
    Will correct as soon as I'm home again.

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