Roulade-Shaped Rugelach

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1997

Tender, flaky pastry dough that holds its shape--and holds in the filling--is the key to these traditional but easy-to-make cookie-pastries.

SERVES Makes 32 cookies

TIME 2 hours, plus 30 minutes freezing and 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

On the way to a rugelach recipe that gave us tender cookies with a bounteous filling, we discovered that freezing the circles of rolled-out dough before applying the filling gave our baked cookies the flakiest, most delicate texture. For th...

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