Well here we go! I am finally able to post up a little more info about Katz products! I really wish I could introduce you all to my grandmother. She is literally the epitome of an Italian grandmother. From the cookies to the four course meals on a Monday night to always making sure there is more than 12 pounds of pasta on the shelf and 75 pounds of meat in the freezer. Meatballs? She's got 'em. Tollhouse cookies? Done. Pizelle's? What do you mean there are none left??

One of her favorite recipes to make is rugalech. She has been making these babies for years upon years. Pretty much everyone's favorite little cookies. They are sweet and nutty at the same time, these decadent little crescent rolls. I love them. We all love them; its become a family tradition to beg for them at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We had about 8,000 of them at my family's "fake Thanksgiving". I think we ate them until New Years.

I can't eat these little babies anymore. So sad. I try not to get worked up about it. But sometimes staring at the tables and tables of desserts I wonder about the joke that is being played on me. Will I ever be able to eat a cookie made by someone in my family again? Or wait, one that I did not specifically ask for myself? The answer is a big fat no sometimes! Old-school gramma's don't do gluten-free flour!

However, I have found my replacement!
 
Katz sent me two kinds of rugelech. Chocolate and cinnamon. I was really excited about it! These were actually the first thing I tried from the box of stuff they sent me. Conveniently I was just getting home from work and I was starving. Pop open the box and pop in a cinnamon rugelech! This one did not disappoint!

Mild cinnamon flavor immediately caught my attention. This was a sweet little cookie. It was in the shape of a pinwheel, but hey, its GF/DF I ain't hatin' on the shape! Anyone who has tried rugelech knows the texture. It's not a "soft" cookie but it's not hard either. These aren't too moist though (and that's normal). Almost like a thick pastry. I know. I'm sorry. Bad description. But this cookie was spot on texture wise. The flavor was amazing too. I loved it! I was so happy to finally have a little love in my life in regards to yummy traditional foods I could eat.

Up next I tried the chocolate ones. Again, the texture was spot on. Firm and flavorful these puppies had a mild chocolate "frosting" that didn't overpower the whole cookie. Still a pinwheel shape and still ok with me. I've never had a chocolate rugelech before, so this was an interesting twist on this cookie!!

I did prefer the cinnamon rugelech over the chocolate. Probably because I'm so traditional. But hey, in the grand scheme of things, these little pinwheel cookies have a lot going for them. Sweet. Little. Not too unhealthy. And Katz Gluten-Free has the replication of a very traditional cookie down pat.

This one gets a 9 out of 10 stars.

Ingredients (cinnamon): Gluten free flour (Potato Starch, Tapioca Flour, White Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour, Sorghum Flour,) Sugar, Canola oil, Egg, Water, confection Sugars, Orange Juice, Dry Yeast,  Xanthan Gum, Cinnamon, baking powder, Salt, Vanillin.

Ingredients (chocolate): Gluten free flour (Potato Starch, Tapioca Flour, White Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour, Sorghum Flour,), Sugar, Canola oil,  Egg, Water,  Orange Juice,  Cocoa, confection Sugars, Dry Yeast,  Xanthan Gum, baking powder, Salt, Cinnamon, Coffee, Vanillin.

Note: Katz runs a kosher (OU) parve bakery in a dedicated dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free facility.

This is a third party review by Go Dairy Free reviewer Amy B. For more information and to purchase this product, see the Katz Gluten-Free Bakery Website.

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