Rogaliki (Polish Croissant Cookies)

  • Ingredients 6 Ingredients
  • Total time 42 min total
  • Servings Serves Makes about 60
  • Difficulty Medium
  • Cuisine Polish
  • Category Dessert
Recipe byThe ZestyPlate Kitchen
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Tender Polish crescent cookies made from a cream cheese dough, rolled around a spoonful of jam and dusted with icing sugar. Delicate and moreish.

Rogaliki are little crescent-shaped Polish cookies built on a soft cream cheese pastry and curled around a dab of jam. They bake up buttery and flaky, only lightly sweet, and get a snowfall of icing sugar once cool. One batch yields a good pile, so they suit coffee with friends or topping up the biscuit tin.
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Prep 30 min Cook 12 min Total 42 min Medium
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Ingredients

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  • 1 cup Butter
  • 3 Egg Yolks
  • 8 oz Cream Cheese
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 3 cups Flour
  • 1 Jar Jam
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Rogaliki (Polish Croissant Cookies)

Preparation

  1. In a medium bowl, beat the egg yolks, cream cheese and baking powder together with a hand mixer. Add the flour a little at a time. Once it stops mixing cleanly and looks like wood chips, set the mixer aside and bring the dough together by hand.
  2. Shape it into a roll, wrap in foil, and freeze for 15 minutes. While it chills, heat the oven to 375F.
  3. Unwrap the dough and divide it in two. Roll each piece out and cut into 3-inch triangles.
  4. Drop a small spoonful of jam at the centre of each triangle and roll them up into crescents.
  5. Sit the crescents on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden.
  6. Repeat with the remaining dough.
  7. Straight out of the oven, leave to cool and dust with icing sugar. This makes around 60 cookies, in three batches of 20.

Tips from the ZestyPlate Kitchen

  • Chill the dough, or pop it in the freezer for a short while, so it firms up enough to roll and shape neatly.
  • Choose a thick jam that stays put rather than running out across the tray as they bake.
  • Start rolling each triangle from its wide edge and curl it up tightly into a crescent.
  • Dust them with icing sugar while they're still warm so it sticks.

Frequently Asked Questions

It makes the pastry tender and flaky with a faint tang, and it is forgiving and easy to handle.

Thick fruit jam is the traditional choice, but chocolate spread, poppy seed paste or a mix of cinnamon sugar and chopped nuts all work nicely.

Yes. It keeps in the fridge for a day or freezes well, so you can bake the cookies in batches whenever suits you.

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