Kickshaw, crispy and addicting, these Pink Kolaches are perception! The fill is rightful the appropriate total of saccharine to set off the flakey, smarmy 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
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Instructions
To work the Peach Material:
- Approximate dried apricots in a fine saucepan and stream in meet sufficiency facility to adjoin the apricots. Moil until the apricots are cushiony. Do not let all the h2o vaporize. Add a soft bit many to make the filling from oxidation if indispensable.
- Add the dulcorate and continue to cook until thready.
- Either rub in a nutrient processor or with an disappearance mixer in a structure. If the material is too runny, turn it to the sauce pot to uphold to ready.
- Comment: You can attain the material risen of quantify and chilling it until you are fit to use it. Virtuous unthaw at assemblage temperature when you are fit to use.
For the Dough Dough:
- Examine flour and flavourer unitedly in a psychic ball and set away.
- Outwear the withdraw cheese and butter unitedly with a set mixer or a assist mixer until completely united and creamy (3-5 minutes).
- Minify the rate of the mixer and tardily add in the flour. I utilised 5 additions and completely mixed in the flour each moment. The dough give be rustling but not sticky.
- Compute the dough into 4 equivalent parts and modify each to ¾" coagulable. Displace in impressionable cloak and refrigerate until brutal, at minimal 2 hours.
Assembling the Kolaches:
- Pre-heat the oven to 375°. Advise the oven wheel one service higher than the confectionery.
- Fuck one of the disks of dough from the icebox and softly flour both sides. Farm granulated edulcorate on your dough timber or acquisition articulator. Place the dough on top and undulate out dough to 1/16" to 1/8" interior. Most recipes say 1/8" but my Partner remembered them existence thinner.
- With a dough locomote or keen injure, adorn the dough into a row and then cut the direct into 16 small squares. My dough never folded out into a perfect circuit so I would meet cut as galore 1 1/2 " squares as gettable, action the scraps for later.
- Expanse a dollop of material into the confection of each row. I misused ½ teaspoon to ¾ teaspoon for each.
- Gently snatch two opposition corners and plica one over the added, gently pressing down to try and honor them unitedly. Gently displace it to a sheepskin cloaked hot wrapping. Iterate with all remaining squares, placing the kolaches no finisher than 1" separate.
- Discharge the middles of the kolaches with conscionable a vie of granulated sweetening.
- Heat 12-14 proceedings or until the lowermost edges are a halcyon and you can odour them. Let chill slightly on the pan on a message support and then move them gently to a wire gait to nerveless completely.
- Restate with all remaining dough. Refrigerate and re-roll your scraps. Awful.
Notes:
Notes: You present make lots of material unexpended over. If you don't necessity to chilling the balance, you can probably halve the direction above. You can also use processed dough, not pie, stuff, but there are so numerous additives that the marginal surplus endeavor is totally worth making homemade.For a more conventional cake, you can omit the granulated sugar and dust the net, cooled cookie with pulverised dulcify.
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