Recipe: Tasty Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen)

Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen). Oh, the memories of this recipe! This is a favourite Mennonite Tradition for a summer meal. This is my mom's favourite recipe for Roll Kuchen. I remember fondly the time my parent's spent making this and how they doubled and tripled the recipe for family gatherings. To non-Mennonites the idea of having these with watermelon strikes them as very strange--Watermelon and doughnuts??!!??

Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen) Passed down from Grandma Klassen. Growing up in a Russian Mennonite** home, the best summer memories usually included Roll Kuchen and Rhebuze. The direct translations of these are "rolled cookies" and "watermelon", though the term rolled cookies is a bit of a misnomer. You can cook Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen) using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen)

1. Prepare of Dough.
2. Prepare 1 cup of whipping cream.
3. Prepare 2 of eggs.
4. You need 1/4 cup of butter or margarine.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. It's 1 pinch of baking powder.
7. You need 2 cup of all purpose flour.

The yield of this recipe varies greatly depending on the thickness of the rolled dough and size of cookie cutters used. Wrap the dough up and refrigerate it for a few hours. Letting it sit makes it so much easier to roll out. Rolling it thin, makes a crisper roll kuchen and leaving it a bit thicker makes for a softer.

Rolled Cookies (Roll Kuchen) step by step

1. Preheat oil for deep frying between 360-375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mix all ingredients EXCEPT flour.
3. Add in flour until mixture is sticky (just enough to be rolled). Approximately 2 cups, but less is more.
4. Sprinkle counter with flour and roll out dough in thin sheets.
5. Cut rolled dough into squares with two small slits cut out of centers (this helps them stabilize in oil).
6. Fry squares for 30 seconds or so flipping once.
7. Serve with side of fresh fruit, or try stuffing with strawberries before frying!.

Mix and make a soft but not sticky dough. Roll and cut into oblong pieces. Make a cut in the centre (but not from edge to edge). Take an end and pull through the middle. Into bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt.