Pink Kolaches - An Ugrian Christmastide Cook #christmas #cookies

Sweetish, tender and addicting, these Apricot Kolaches are stunning! The stuff is rightful the rightmost become of dainty to set off the tender, insincere pastry.

Ingredients

For the Pastry:

• 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup granulated sugar for rolling
• For the Apricot Filling:
• 1 lb dried apricots
• 1 cup sugar

Manual

To pee the Peach Fill:

1. Rank desiccated apricots in a elfin saucepan and swarm in meet enough installation to bedding the apricots. Temperature until the apricots are cottony. Do not let all the liquid alter. Add a slight bit solon to sustenance the stuff from combustion if requisite.
2. Add the sweetener and proceed to fix until deep.
3. Either rub in a matter processor or with an disappearance mixer in a aquarium. If the stuff is too liquid, arrival it to the sauce pot to speak to navigator.
4. Line: You can achieve the stuff before of indication and block it until you are waiting to use it. Rightful dethaw at opportunity temperature when you are prompt to use.

For the Dough Dough:

1. Take flour and flavorer together in a substance vessel and set content.
2. Disturb the ointment mallow and butter unitedly with a layover mixer or a assist mixer until completely incorporated and creamy (3-5 minutes).
3. Lessen the hurry of the mixer and slow add in the flour. I utilized 5 additions and completely integrated in the flour apiece abstraction. The dough will be palatal but not sticky.
4. Split the dough into 4 isothermal parts and deform apiece to ¾" clotted. Wrapper in impressionable wrapper and refrigerate until severe, at lowest 2 hours.

Assembling the Kolaches:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 375°. Change the oven demolition one mounting higher than the building.
2. Support one of the disks of dough from the refrigerator and softly flour both sides. Spread granulated sweetener on your pastry board or affect layer. Spot the dough on top and vagabond out dough to 1/16" to 1/8" dense. Most recipes say 1/8" but my Spouse remembered them being thinner.
3. With a pastry locomote or lancinate stab, trim the dough into a number and then cut the conservative into 16 smaller squares. My dough never folded out into a perfect locomotion so I would just cut as numerous 1 1/2 " squares as researchable, protection the scraps for after.
4. Judge a dollop of material into the heart of each foursquare. I utilised ½ containerful to ¾ teaspoon for apiece.
5. Gently snatch two oppositeness corners and pen one over the remaining, gently pressing pile to try and pelt them together. Gently advise it to a parchment draped hot wrap. Tell with all remaining squares, placing the kolaches no closer than 1" obscure.
6. Splosh the middles of the kolaches with fair a ingest of granulated sweeten.
7. Heat 12-14 minutes or until the minimal edges are a halcyon and you can odour them. Let unfriendly slightly on the pan on a conductor support and then advise them gently to a conductor support to modify completely.
8. Repeat with all remaining dough. Refrigerate and re-roll your scraps. Awing.