Martha Stewart helped us with these. We used last year's cookie handbook.



After you soak the prunes in brandy for 24 hours, you puree them with bread crumbs and sugar. Then you roll out the dough and spread the mixture into the middle. Cut them into triangles.




Roll em up, like real live rugelach, which is what they are.




When they are properly browned, put them in a box lined with tissue paper and take them with you to Fernando's mother's house in Hancock Park. Then eat too many ham biscuits and scare Leo half-to-death by singing Happy Birthday with the energy of a thousand drunk Santa Clausi.

Even though you are having a marvelous time, slip out without saying goodbye, and try to be in bed as early as possible.