Pumpkin And Cheese Coiled Pastries Boyos De Kalavasa Rodanchas Food

GREEK PUMPKIN COILS (RODANCHAS DE KALVASSA)

Steps:

• Cook the puree with the sugar in the top of a double boiler until very thick.
• Stir in cinnamon and walnuts.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lay out 1 sheet of phyllo dough, brush lightly with melted butter or olive oil.
• Cover with a second sheet of dough and brush lightly with butter or oil.
• Using a pastry tube or other convenient technique, place a pencil-thin line of the pumpkin filling along the length of the phyllo dough sheet just inside the edge.
• Fold the edge over to completely cover the pumpkin filling.
• Continue rolling the phyllo dough into a long thin tube.
• Brush lightly with butter or oil as you roll.
• Take one end of the roll and coil up, taking care not to make the coil so tight that it breaks.
• Arrange the coils so they are close together but not touching on an oiled baking sheet.
• If desired, brush completed coil with egg white.
• Bake for 30-45 minutes, or until golden brown.

PUMPKIN COOKIES WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING (THE WORLD'S BEST!)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and ginger together in a bowl. Beat 1 cup butter, white sugar, brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and egg with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl, beating until mixture is smooth. Beat in pumpkin puree. Gradually stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Batter will be moist.
• Spoon batter by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool for about 5 minutes on sheets before removing to finish cooling on waxed paper.
• Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy. Beat in confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting.