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Parve
Easy
50 Minutes
Diets 
My wonderful daughter-in-law, Reizy, told me about this rugela dough a while ago, but somehow I never got around to testing it. When Chanie suggested offering bake-aheads for the upcoming Yamim Tovim, I decided that now’s the time! I’m so happy I tried it: the soft dough comes together in literally minutes, all you need is a pot and spoon, and they taste really good too! Use the suggested fillings below or your family’s favorites — b’tei’avon! Check out our complete collection of Rosh Hashanah recipes for mains, sides, soups, desserts, and more inspiration for the holiday.
1 cup water
1 cup oil
2 tablespoons Gefen Vanilla Sugar
3 tablespoons sugar
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons Haddar Baking Powder
filling options: date spread, Tuscanini Apricot Jam and cinnamon, oven-proof jelly fillings, or nougat
In a medium-sized pot, heat water and oil until beginning to boil. Remove from heat and add sugars to pot.
Combine flour and baking powder and add to pot, stirring with a spoon until the ingredients are well combined and the dough comes together. Set aside to cool a bit.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius).
Divide dough into four equal parts. Working with one part of dough, roll out thinly into a circle. Spread with filling of choice and cut into 12 even triangles (pizza-slice style). Roll up each triangle, beginning from wider end, and place on Gefen Parchment-lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until just beginning to brown at edges. Transfer to wire racks to cool.
Yields 48 rugelach
Photography: Hudi Greenberger Food Styling: Janine Kalesis
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How do you boil water and oil together? Won’t the oil ‘explode’?
Hi Tzippi,
You are correct that it’s important to be careful! You can boil them together, gradually, and not to such a high heat. Make sure to use a good quality pot without any cracks.
-Chana Tzirel from Kosher.com
Can you freeze these rogelach?
Super easy recipe, probably the easiest dough recipe for cookies ever. My only note is that I found 25 minutes to be too long to bake, probably 20 would’ve been enough.
I think I’ll repurpose this dough for hamantaschen. I also suspect that if a rolled out portion of this dough is pricked with a fork, it would make great cookies that could be made into cookie sandwiches with a jam or peanut butter filling.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
how long should i let the dough rise before assembling it?
This dough doesn’t need rising time!
Is this a regular dough or more like a flaky dough?
More of a regular dough.
Simple filling Can I do a simple cinnamon sugar filling (or cocoa sugar) ? My kids aren’t into jelly filling
sure, you can do whatever filling you like. If you decide to do cinnamon sugar or cocoa and sugar, I would mix them with butter or margarine so you can spread it onto the dough and it will stick.
Pareve This is a pareve recipe?
yes
Overnight the dough Can I put the dough in the fridge overnight or it needs to be used fresh?
Yes, but I wouldn’t keep it there for more than 2 nights.
Came out excellent, dough really easy to work with, my 5 year old did the whole thing!!! Note I baked it for 15-20 min – 30 min was too long.
Incredible! I was quite sceptical at first about how a dough can be thick enough to roll out and versatile enough to mix with a spoon, but found out 3 minutes later that obviously it is possible (YES! IT’S THAT QUICK!). So excited to have discovered this recipe.
Amazing recipe! Super quick and easy, and the dough comes together beautifully and is easy to work with. They’re delicious too. Win-win recipe! I’ve made them a couple of times now, I use apricot jelly and cinnamon.
Super easy, I use pressed dates with cinnamon. YUM!
Amazing I tried these with milk instead of water, and it came out really good. I also found it easier to thin the dough a little, cut it into triangles, and then thin out each piece individually again. Nice that it doesn’t have margarine and eggs.
This recipe definitely lives up to its name! They really are amazingly soft and easy! i did 1/4 with choco filling, 1/4 cinnamon, 1/4 apricot (yum!) and 1/4 vanilla. they all came out really good! ty!
Rugelach so easy to make and turn out delicious So delicious and never made anything so easy.
Really appreciated this recipe and will make it often
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Amazing for my daughter with egg allergy!!! Thanks for this great recipe.
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Amazing dough! Easy to make, easy to work with and delicious!
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FIVE STARS! The dough was so easy to roll. Was flaky and delicious! I mixed 1/2 cup brown sugar, 3 Tab. cinnamon and about 1 Tab. oil and spread it on the dough. A real hit!
Terrific!