Fig Swirls

"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."
 
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Ready In:
4hrs 15mins
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
4 dozen
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ingredients

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directions

  • Make pastry dough: Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Make filling: Purée figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.
  • 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.
  • Bake cookies: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
  • 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.
  • Unbaked logs can be chilled up to 3 days.
  • 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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I have 6 children 4 boys and 2 girl,ilove to cook and try lots of different foods,my real name is Britt and i live in louisiana i like to collect recipes,cookbooks,dolls,and angels,i just started having a intrest in teacups and teapots,i also like amish rag dolls.
 
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