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Prep Time: 240 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 255 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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These swirl cookies are a wonderful Christmas cookie one of my favorites. It really does the fig justice. Prep time may seem long, but it’s jst chill time in the refrigerator. Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour |
1/4 teaspoon baking powder |
1/4 teaspoon baking soda |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened |
4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature |
1 large egg yolk |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
1 cup packed soft dried mission figs, hard tips discarded (8 oz) |
3/4 cup mild honey |
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice |
2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest |
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon |
Directions:
1. Make pastry dough: Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
2. Pulse butter, cream cheese, yolk, and vanilla in a food processor until smooth, then add flour mixture and pulse until dough just forms a ball.
3. Halve dough and form each half into a roughly 6- by 2-inch rectangle. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours.
4. Make filling: Purée figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.
5. Make logs: Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 10- by 8-inch rectangle (about 1/3 inch thick), long side facing you. Remove top sheet of wax paper and gently spread one fourth of fig mixture over bottom half of dough, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Using wax paper as an aid, roll dough, jelly-roll style, halfway, enclosing fig mixture. Flip dough, with wax paper. Remove paper. Spread with one third of remaining fig mixture and roll in same manner, to form an S-shaped log. Make another log. Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, until firm, at least 4 hours.
6. Bake cookies: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
7. Cut logs crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 2 inches apart on lightly buttered baking sheets. Bake until pastry is pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.
8. Unbaked logs can be chilled up to 3 days.
9. Keep cookies layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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