From DN Recipes by David Nagy · Food & Beverage

Hungarian Kifli Cookies (half recipe)

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Hungarian Kifli Cookies
Ingredients
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 lbs butter or margarine
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 pint sour cream
  • 1/16 tsp salt
  • 1  pkg dry yeast
Directions
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine sour cream, yeast, and sugar.  Mix until well combined and let sit while yeast dissolves.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and butter, cutting together with either two knives or a pastry cutter.
  3. Add yeast mixture into the flour mixture along with the vanilla and egg yolks.  Mix dough together by hand until it is well combined. 
  4. Split dough in half and wrap up in either plastic wrap or wax paper.  Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
  5. Make the nut filling
  6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  7. Roll out thin and cut into squares
  8. Fill with nut filling, lekvar, or apricot filling and roll
  9. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes

ONE FOURTH Nut Filling
  • 4 oz ground walnuts
  • 1/2 egg white, beaten
  • 3/8 cup sugar, plus a little more
  • 1/2 tbsp syrup
  • 3/4 tbsp butter, melted
  • Combine, adding enough milk to make a moist filling