Sugar-Free Cinnamon Raisin Rugelach

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Preparation info
  • One

    pan of rugelach small rolls
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
It's a Sweet World: Recipes from Around the Globe at Bea’s Bakery

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

  • About

Cinnamon spice features in many of our recipes for a very good reason—it has become so beloved in baking for its rich and fragrant flavor that harks back to ancient times in Egypt and China. This exotic and rare “food of the gods” was considered an aphrodisiac, a health tonic, and an antiseptic and was kept in glass cases or ceremonially burned on funeral pyres.

Yet when we liberally sprinkle cinnamon powder into a filling or mix, we rarely give a thought to the effort involved in g