Traditional Ukrainian Pastry Cookies called Scuffles aka Cinnamon Twists: a great addition to our Christmas morning brunch! Easy to make; delicious to eat! The ingredient list was given to me by my gal pal Liz, at Bridge. There were no instructions for making the dough, so I have written what worked for me, as well as how to make the cookies using the Thermomix machine. Great big hug to Liz.
Course
Cookie
Cuisine
Ukrainian Canadian
Prep Time1hour30minutes
Cook Time18minutes
Total Time1hour48minutes
Servings64pastries
AuthorValerie Lugonja
Ingredients
Ingredients for Dough:
5cups or 550 gramsflour
2teaspoonsbaking powder
1poundor 454 grams butter
1cup 220 gramswhole milk
2large eggs
Ingredients for Garnishing Sugar:
1cup or 220 gramsgranulated white sugar
8teaspoonscinnamon
Instructions
Instructions for the Pastry:
Add flour and baking powder together in large bowl; mix to combine
Cut butter into flour mixture until crumbly; add milk and eggs, stirring just until dough comes together to form a ball
Divide into 4 discs; cover each securely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1-2 hours, or overnight until ice cold
Instructions for the Pastry in Thermomix:
Weigh flour and baking powder into TM bowl: mix to combine for 5 seconds at speed 3
Weigh cold butter cubes into flour mixture in TM bowl; use hand or wooden spoon to mix butter cubes inside TM bowl with flour (without machine running)
Mix to combine from 0-10 for 15 seconds until coarse crumbles (similar to oatmeal)
Weigh milk and eggs into TM bowl; combine for 30 seconds at speed 3 to 8 until mixture just comes together in clumps (be sure to not over mix)
Divide dough into 4 discs; cover each securely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1-2 hours, or overnight until ice cold
Instructions for Rolling out Dough:
Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle generous amount on work surface
Divide dough into 8 equal balls; refrigerate seven and place one on top of cinnamon sugar
Roll dough out 1/8th-inch thick into circle (as you would pie crust) on sugar/cinnamon mixture
Divide circle of dough into 4, then into 8 triangular pieces: a pizza or pastry cutter works great for this
Start at the wide end of your triangle and roll triangle toward its point similar to rolling a croissant; place each on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes
Recipe Notes
Dividing the Dough I actually weighed the entire mass, divided it into 4 discs of equal weight to refrigerate, then divided each disc into equal portions by weight, again. Cinnamon Sugar This recipe has 8 teaspoons of cinnamon: one for each of the 8 dough balls to be divided into 8 pieces yielding 64 cookies.