♡ Cream Cheese Cinnamon Buns ♡

Home made Cream Cheese Cinnamon Buns....
They are so tender and delicious!

Brushed on the cream cheese frosting...

Made the cream cheese frosting.

out of the oven /spread butter on top..

 On Second rise...... 

 Ready to put in the baking pan........

Rolled and cut......

Rolled out to 18 by 12 inches & butter spread on & cinnamon mix on top....

After the stretch and folds set in a warm oven for 1 1/2 hours......

Mixed and rest for 30 minutes/ did 3 stretch and folds in 1 hour......

Absolutely delicious! 

Hamantaschen Cookies

Hamantaschen are sweet triangular pastries with a filling poppy seeds.

My Italian tradition is around Christmas time and my mother use to made these a couple weeks before Christmas and I use to help her and I would learn, specially the raisins and Figs but no rum and I didn't have any figs..lol...

♡I doubled on the pastry ♡
☆made two kinds of filling ☆

cooling  out of the oven......

 ready to go in the oven......

 Filled w/Apricot Lekvar.........

Soaked for two days in dark cube rum filled w/ Raisins and Currents.....

rolled out and cut to shapes.....

cookie dough ready to chill...........

in a plastic bag & pressed down gently w/ rolling pin.....

 knead the dough.....

finally done mixing........

 the egg York's mix to the flour & mixed...

mix the in dry ingredients w/ the butter/sugar .....

mix the sugar and butter...........

 all of the ingredients are ready...

made the raisins & currents and soaked in dark Cuba rum mix filling...

 processed in a small food processors....

Put in 1 orange zest & I lemon zest plus 1/4 of lemon juice..........

I don’t like poppy seeds, I  do like these two fillings and the pastry is good......