Pastry

Gluten-Free Hamantashen

by JMORE Staff | Feb 14, 2019 | Baking, Cookies & Cakes, Gluten-free, Pastry, Purim, Recipes

Print Recipe Gluten-Free Hamantashen Votes: 0 Rating: 0 You: Rate this recipe! Course Dessert Cuisine Eastern European, Jewish Servings dozen US ImperialMetric Ingredients Filling 2 cups water1 cup poppy seed (or other filling of choice)1/3 cup raisins1 small orange...

Russian Piroshki

by Sonya Sanford | Feb 11, 2019 | Pastry, Recipes, Vegetarian

Piroshki are a popular Russian pastry of filled buns that are either baked or fried. Most piroshki are made with a soft yeasted dough that is enriched with egg, but some piroshki are made with a pastry dough of butter/margarine that becomes flaky when baked. The...

Classic Apple Strudel Recipe

by JTA | Dec 20, 2018 | Baking, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes

(The Nosher via JTA) – My bubbe is Swiss and one of the best bakers I know. My childhood memories are filled with visions of her glazed schnecken (Swiss buns like rugelach), her rich babkas and her waehes, which are seasonal Swiss fruit tarts. When I first started...

World’s Best Babka

by JMORE Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Baking, Breads, Chanukah, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes

Print Recipe World's Best Babka Votes: 0 Rating: 0 You: Rate this recipe! Course Dessert Cuisine Eastern European Servings loaves US ImperialMetric Ingredients Dough 447 grams all-purpose flour King Arthur recommended220 grams whole milk22 grams fresh yeast or 12...

Chocolate Babka Doughnuts

by JTA | Nov 28, 2018 | Baking, Chanukah, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes

Babka is nearly a weekly occurrence in my house, and I can think of few things better. But it’s not just me: Babka has really been getting the recognition it deserves all over the country, making appearances everywhere from artisanal bakeries to Jewish delis and even...

Peach and Blueberry Galette

by The Classic Catering People | Nov 14, 2018 | Baking, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes

Print Recipe Peach and Blueberry Galette Votes: 0 Rating: 0 You: Rate this recipe! Course Dessert Cuisine French Cook Time 20 minutes Ingredients For the dough: 2 cups plain flour3 tbs. sugar150 grams butter cold and chopped2-3 tbs. icy cold water For the filling: 6...

Chocolate Babka Challah Recipe

by JTA | Aug 18, 2018 | Baking, Breads, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes, Rosh Hashanah

By Chaya Rappoport (The Nosher via JTA) – There’s nothing more comforting than a slice of babka and a glass of milk to break a long fast on. In my family, it’s pretty much all we eat. But I don’t always make babka, and I do always make challah, especially during the...

You Can Make An Entenmann’s Danish at Home (And You’ll Never Look Back)

by Sonya Sanford | Jun 10, 2018 | Baking, Dairy, Pastry, Recipes

(The Nosher via JTA) – I grew up in a home where almost every meal was made from scratch. In retrospect, I’m grateful for the delicious healthy food I grew up eating, but at the time I coveted my friends’ fruit roll-ups, Capri Suns and Happy Meals. Even though I...

S’mores Babka

by JTA | Jun 1, 2018 | Baking, Cookies & Cakes, Pastry, Recipes, Summer

(The Nosher via JTA) – Babka is an Eastern European yeasted cake with deep Jewish roots and also great American popularity. One of babka’s most notorious moments was in an episode of “Seinfeld”: Jerry and Elaine head to Royal Bakery to pick up babka for a dinner...

Everything Bagel Bourekas

by JTA | May 2, 2018 | Baking, Breads, Dairy, Pastry, Quick & Easy, Recipes, Shavuot

These bourekas are a mix of New York Jewish and Middle Eastern Israeli food cultures. It sounds a little crazy, but it’s incredibly good: The flavorful seasoning blend, slightly sweet from the dried onion and garlic, balances out the salty, briny feta interior, and...