Rugelach is a Jewish pastry made with all sorts of wonderfully buttery things and filled with a whole range of deliciousness. There’s cream cheese, sour cream, butter in the dough. And in this version, candied peel, cherries, cranberries and raisins in the filling. And brown sugar and spices. The best kind of Christmas party!
Christmas cookies
Hazelnut Snowball Cookies (Eggless)
Ironically for someone who has a blog primarily about desserts, I avoid excessively sugary frostings, cloyingly sweet cookies, anything doused in a ton of powdered sugar. Apparently as the new year approaches, all of that goes out the window because ohmygodthesecookiesarefabulous. I mean, toasted hazelnuts mixed into a buttery cookie dough that is then rolled into…
Crunchy Ginger Biscuits (Eggless)
I’ve loved ginger biscuits since I was a kid. There’s something about the crunchy, gingery, buttery, spicy-but-sweet combination that I just can’t resist. A big stack of said biscuits and I would be inseparable. They make great gifts, if you’re feeling generous, and are so ridiculously easy to make, I hardly think they should be…