November/December 2010 BCTM: Maida Heatter's COOKIES- Rolled

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Our baking cookbook for November/December 2010 is Maider Heatter's COOKIES, anyhwhere you can find them.

Please use this thread to discuss Maider Heatter Rolled Cookie recipes. When posting your review, include the source. If the source is a book, include the book name and page number; and if it you found your recipe online, post a link.

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[redwood2bay]

Rugelach, from MH's Book of Great Cookies, p 201.
I have to admit that I haven't made any other rugelach recipes, but I've made these a few times now, and they're lovely. The dough is a little fussy-- a traditional mixture of butter, cream cheese, flour and salt which ripens overnight-- but making the crescents is easier than I'd thought. This time, I used two other fillings: raspberry jam and mini chocolate morsels.

This is a substantial, flaky cookie, and folks at work wanted the recipe when I brought them in. A solid rugelach recipe if you're looking for one.

[Velda Mae]

The Plain Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies are excellent. The dough can be rolled very thin, it holds its shape well in the oven and it gets really crispy. I use this recipe for my annual batch of Valentine sugar cookies. From Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Cookies p. 193.