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rugelach

rugelach

1 9.6
A small pastry shaped like a crescent that uses cream cheese dough and holds chocolate or jam
  • noun
  • /ˈruːɡəˌlɑːx/
  • US
: rugelach
  • Gramma's tin of rugelach arrived just hours before they did, with a note and a check.
  • rugelach filled with raspberry

Examples

  • Traditional rugelach have a cream-cheese pastry filled with fruits and nuts and are formed into a crescent shape.

  • Even now, as he and Isaac are driving up, Andras's older sisters are baking rugelach, prune cake, and mandelbrot.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • It's rugelach served with a cake fork.

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

  • This rugelach looks amazing, Mrs. Kristal.

    CBGB (2013)

  • A rugelach, in my opinion, is pastry, which there is no excuse for eating with a cake fork.

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

  • I also knew someone who consumed rugelach every day, almost ritually, with a cake fork.

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

  • The truth is, when arriving at their apartment, I'll be bland and charming, will have remembered to bring a box of rugelach from the overpriced bakery near their building, and pretend I've been invited.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • This rugelach looks amazing, Mrs. Kristal.

Synonyms

rugulah
vsrugelach
  • US
1 9.9

A small crescent-shaped pastry made with cream cheese dough and filled with nuts or chocolate

is the same pastry but written as another variant spelling
ruggelach
vsrugelach
  • US
1 9.9

A small crescent shaped pastry made from cream cheese dough filled with nuts, fruit, or chocolate

is the same pastry but spelled as an alternative variant

How Sweet

sweet
76 1.0
rugelach
  • US
1 9.6

Surface Forms

rugelach singular
rugelachs plural

Etymology

Rugelach comes from Yiddish and the root rugel means a 'little horn' because the pastry is rolled into a small horn or crescent. That's why rugelach are small, crescent-shaped pastries.