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Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Rugelach

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If you love traditional rugelach, these gluten free strawberry white chocolate chip rugelach will be a fun new flavor to try! This is the dessert my family has been waiting for.

Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Rugelach cooling on a baking rack

Rugelach

Traditional rugelach is a Jewish cookie with chocolate and nuts that you can find in many bakeries and cafes. Mr. Fearless Dining’s grandmother used to make rugelach and the cookie was so flaky, it just melted in my mouth. These cookies are like a flaky rolled cookie that is very similar to a pastry.  My rugelach recipe is pretty non-traditional with strawberry and white chocolate chips, and the flavors are bursting in these cookies.

Have you tried rugelach?

This gluten free strawberry white chocolate chip rugelach cookie recipe has that same flaky pastry crustiness, but it is filled with fresh strawberry jam.

I have tried to make a good gluten free rugelach for quite some time. The gluten free dough can be a bit of a challenge, not in flavor or flakiness, but in keeping it together as you roll the dough up.

Typically, gluten free cookie dough needs to be wetter than a regular dough, but in order to roll these cookies, the dough has to be more firm.

Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Rugelach cookie sitting on a a plate. A red napkin is under the plate

You can see the jam and white chocolate chips coming out from the roll, making a pretty reddish edge to the roll of dough. The only downside is the white chocolate turned brownish color. I am not sure why, but the chips still taste like delicious white chocolate.

These cookies are fun to make. Mr. Fearless Dining was walking through the kitchen and thought I was making a pizza at first :-).

How to make gluten free rugelach:

Mixing wet and dry rugelach dough ingredients in a bowl

Add all of your dry ingredients to the bowl, add the wet ingredients and mix.

gluten free rugelach dough in a bowl

Your dough will look firm like this. Roll it out to 1/2 inch thickness.

Rolled out rugelach dough with jam spread on top

Spread out the fresh strawberry jam.

Using a pizza wheel to cut the rugelach dough

Use a pizza wheel to cut the dough. See what I mean by it looks like a pizza? Add the chopped white chocolate chips next.

Rolling rugelach wedge into a cookie shape

Here is where it gets tricky. See how when I roll this wedge the dough cracks? You will need to pinch together the dough when it does this. The dough squishes back together very easily, but you will want to do this every time you see a crack like this form.

Rolled rugelach on a baking sheet

This is what your little gluten free strawberry white chocolate chip rugelach will look like before you bake them.

Gluten Free Baked Strawberry White Chocolate Rugelach out of the oven on parchment paper

With a little effort, these are a delicious cookie that your whole family will gobble up!

Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Rugelach Cookies on a cooling rack with white chocolate chips around the rack.

Are you ready to try to make these cookies for yourself?

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Things You Need To Make This White Chocolate Rugelach Recipe:

  1. Pizza wheel. This is what you need to easily cut your rugelach dough into pie shaped wedges.
  2. This is my favorite gluten free flour blend. It makes baking gluten free so easy!
  3. I love this rolling pin. There is a lot to like, but having the ability to put it into the dishwasher is such a good feature.
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Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Rugelach
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 

Easy gluten free rugelach recipe and step by step photo instructions.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 112 kcal
Author: Sandi Gaertner
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • dash salt
  • 1 3/4 cup gluten free flour blend
  • 1/4 cup +2-3 tablespoons water (add extra tablespoons gradually until you can shape your dough as shown in the photo
  • 1/4 cup white chocolate chips, chopped
  • dash salt
Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

  2. In a large bowl, add dry ingredients and whisk to blend.

  3. In a small bowl, add cream cheese, butter, water, and vanilla. Mix well with an electric mixer. (Do not add extra tablespoons of water yet.)

  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Mix well. Add extra tablespoons of water one at a time until you get a good dough consistency like shown in my picture above.

  5. Divide the dough in half. Lay out a piece of wax paper. Put the one of the dough balls in the middle of the wax paper and shape into a ball. Place another piece of wax paper on top.

  6. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough, keeping it in a circle shape until it is 1/2 inch thick.

  7. Spread on strawberry jam. Use a pizza cutting wheel to slice it into thin wedges as shown above in the picture.

  8. Sprinkle on the chopped white chocolate chips.

  9. Gently pull a wedge out and roll as shown. Pinch the dough to fix any cracks that happen.

  10. Place rolled rugelach onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Repeat with the second dough ball.

  11. Bake for 10-15 minutes until your cookies are golden like shown above.

Nutrition Facts
Gluten Free Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Rugelach
Amount Per Serving (1 g)
Calories 112 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 53mg 2%
Potassium 7mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Sugars 5g
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin A 4%
Iron 1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  2. Rugalach is on my bucket list for this year, and I can’t believe you make these gluten free, how wonderful! One of my daughters now eats gluten free so I’m all over this. I can imagine this with all sorts of jams, homemade and store bought.

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    • I hope she likes it Sue…it seems more and more people are needing to go gluten free. When we started 9 years ago, we couldn’t even find a loaf of gluten free bread in our stores. Now, it is everywhere.

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  4. I love the combination of white chocolate and strawberries! Such a delicious cookie. Will definitely pass this along to my mom who is gluten-free.

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