Definition of RUGELACH

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Recent Examples on the Web Each element, once uncovered, seemed like a treasure: buttery linzer cookies with jam, flaky rugelach, biscotti, sesame date chews. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "Dear Inga will take you home," 19 Dec. 2019 After the rugelach are rolled, they can be frozen on a baking sheet. — Olga Massov, Washington Post, "Our Platonic ideal of a rugelach is this cherry-and-pecan number," 2 Dec. 2019 For other sweet possibilities, cranberry sauce can go inside thumbprint cookies, rugelach or even a riff on sticky buns. — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, "How to use Thanksgiving leftovers," 22 Nov. 2019 Stuff your pockets with Soom tahini and chocolate rugelach. — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, "The Restaurant at Pearl Morissette Offers a Tasting Menu for the Climate-Conscious Era," 7 Nov. 2019 Usually there will be bagels and lox, tuna salad, egg salad or hard-cooked or deviled eggs, noodle kugel, some sort of vegetable like cole slaw or cucumber salad, fruit, and then small pastries like rugelach or mandel bread or the like for dessert. — Stacey Ballis, chicagotribune.com, "Break the fast for Yom Kippur with mini noodle kugels and everything bagel salad," 2 Oct. 2019 Even within that mind-set, their cases burst with more than 60 desserts at a time: red velvet cake, key lime pie, salted caramel fudge cake, peanut butter cookies, rugelach, cupcakes, mini cupcakes — and carrot cake, always. — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, "Carrot cake keeps bakery Sweet Things going for more than 40 years," 30 July 2019 The chain is also known for its bakery case, with fresh-baked cakes, cookies and pastries such as chocolate rugelach. — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, "TooJay’s Deli opens July 9 at Dania Pointe; tacos and barbecue next," 21 June 2019 That was the best place to get fresh bread and rugelach and sweets. — New York Times, "New Yorkers and Their ’80s Routines — Block by Block," 17 Apr. 2018

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“Rugelach.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rugelach. Accessed 23 January 2020.