Turkish Delight Cookies Draft

Name: Turkish Delight Cookies
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 75 cookies
Ingredients: 8½ oz butter; 1 cup sour cream (1 container); 4 egg yolks (from large eggs); 3 cups all-purpose flour (3 cups minus 2 tbsp); 1 tsp baking powder (1/2 Israeli packet); 1 pinch vanilla sugar; 1¼ lb Turkish delight (rahat lokum) (cut into about ⅜-inch (1 cm) cubes); powdered sugar

Sour cream cookies rolled around a cube of Turkish delight; I make the dough a day ahead and dust them with powdered sugar straight from the oven.

Prep1 hr
Cook20 min
Total1 hr 20 min
Makes75 cookies
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What you need

Amount:75

Dough

Filling

1¼ lb Turkish delight (rahat lokum), cut into about ⅜-inch (1 cm) cubes

Decoration

powdered sugar

How I make it

Dough (the night before)

Blend the butter, sour cream and yolks in a food processor or stand mixer.
In another bowl, mix the flour, vanilla sugar and baking powder, and add gradually to the butter mixture.
Process until smooth, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Shaping and baking

The next day, preheat the oven to 340°F (170°C).
Flour the counter and roll the dough out to ⅛ inch (3 mm) thick.
Mark a circle with a 9½-10 inch (24-26 cm) round pan or ring and cut around it with a sharp knife. Remove the scraps and add them to the rest of the dough.
Cut each circle into 12 small triangles. First cut it into quarters, then cut each quarter into 3.
Place a cube of Turkish delight at the wide end of each triangle and roll it up, pressing the dough snugly around the filling.
Arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, ⅜ inch (1 cm) apart, with the tip of the triangle underneath so it doesn't open while baking.
Bake for about 20 minutes, until golden or very lightly browned.
Dust with powdered sugar right away. Let cool slightly and serve.

What I've learned

Instead of the pinch of vanilla sugar, I used 1 tbsp of sugar.

Source: ChefEf (chefef.com)