Cherry Almond Filling Food

Anyone who thinks celebrating Hannukkah properly involves getting out a frying pan can think again.Yes, potato latkes are wonderful. And yes, jelly doughnuts, which have become traditional for the holiday too, are superb. But before there were doughnuts or latkes, there was cheesecake.No, we're not going to suggest cheesecake this Hanukkah, though that would be absolutely in line with tradition. As Joan Nathan reminds us in her "Jewish Holiday Cookbook," cheesecake was essential in the Hanukkah story: Judith gave cheesecakes to Assyria's Gen. Holofernes, which made him thirsty, so she gave him wine, which made him swoon and she was then able to slay him, saving the Jews."They weren't sweet cheesecakes; they were savory," explains Nathan by phone from her Washington, D.C., home.In any case, Judith's cheesecake is why rugelach, the wonderful little cookies-cum-mini-coffee cakes that have cream cheese in the dough and are rolled up with fillings made of any combination of nuts, dried fruits, preserves, spices and chocolate, have come to be traditional for Hanukkah.Short of coming up with a delicious savory cheesecake, nothing could be more true to the spirit of the holiday than rugelach. Not even potato latkes. (Potatoes didn't travel from the New World to the Old World until the 1550s.)Rugelach weren't always associated with Hanukkah, though, because the pastries didn't always include cheese. "Rugelach have always been made in Eastern Europe," Nathan says. "There might have been some that were buttery, but most were made with a yeast dough rolled out very thin."In the 19th century, immigrants brought rugelach to America, and the cream cheese innovation, Nathan says, may have come courtesy of the Philadelphia cream cheese company, around the time the product was launched in 1890."They had to make up recipes with their products, and they saw the Jewish customers were really receptive." One of those recipes may have been for rugelach made with cream cheese dough.Who knew? And further, who knew that the word rugelach comes from the Yiddish rugel, which means "wrinkle"? (Perhaps that comes from the Latin ruga, also meaning wrinkle.) So rugelach means "wrinkles" or "folds," which makes sense because they're rolled up in a wrinkly, folded sort of way.When I was growing up, my grandmother baked decent rugelach when she came to visit. Otherwise, it came in a pink box from Viktor Benes. That was fine, but I always dreamed of finding a recipe for homemade rugelach to die for. I dreamed, for this Hanukkah, of rugelach filled with the best dark chocolate and maybe hazelnuts, or wonderful dried cherries and the freshest almonds. I asked Donna Deane, The Times' test kitchen director, to make my holiday dreams come true, and she did, creating recipes for three of the most amazing rugelach I could have imagined.Choose one or two of the fillings, make a batch of the dough, and let 'em roll.

Provided by Leslie Brenner

Categories     CONDIMENTS

Time 17m

Yield Makes about 1 1/4 cups to fill 3 rugelach pastry rolls

Number Of Ingredients 5

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Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network

Categories     dessert

Time 1h

Yield 8 individual crisps

Number Of Ingredients 14

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Make and share this Cherry Almond Creamy Cheese Pie recipe from Food.com.

Provided by Rita1652

Categories     Pie

Time 30m

Yield 8-10 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

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A rich tasting bar filled with maraschino cherries and chopped almonds, topped with a cherry almond flavoured frosting. Source: Chatelaine magazine, recipe by Carolyn Potts.

Provided by Elly in Canada

Categories     Bar Cookie

Time 1h20m

Yield 36 bars, 36 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 176.4, Fat 8.4, SaturatedFat 4.1, Cholesterol 26.4, Sodium 58, Carbohydrate 24.1, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 17.3, Protein 2

This is the dump cake I made at Carolina Beach in July 2020.

Provided by TENNESSEEPAM

Categories     Dump Cake From a Mix

Time 1h

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 5

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 338.4 calories, Carbohydrate 55.9 g, Cholesterol 21.1 mg, Fat 11.9 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 5.5 g, Sodium 255.4 mg

I grew up in northern Michigan, where three generations of my family have been cherry producers. This traditional cherry pie makes a mouthwatering dessert that always gets rave reviews.-Ramona Pleva, Lincoln Park, New Jersey

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 1h10m

Yield 8 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 9

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Nutrition Facts : Calories 436 calories, Fat 16g fat (7g saturated fat), Cholesterol 14mg cholesterol, Sodium 242mg sodium, Carbohydrate 73g carbohydrate (43g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.