Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, hungarian kiffles. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Hungarian Kiffles is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Hungarian Kiffles is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, cherry, almond, and poppyseed. Beat butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until pale yellow and creamy. Kiffles, made from a light, rich cream cheese dough, are part of the eastern European baking tradition of cookies and small pastries with a fruit.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hungarian kiffles using 8 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hungarian Kiffles:
- Take 3 cups unsifted flour
- Make ready 3 tablespoons sugar
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 2 sticks butter (room temperature)
- Take 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- Make ready 3 egg yolks
- Take 3/4 lb apricot butter
- Take Confectioner's sugar
These pastries are hand rolled paper thin and then stuffed with pastry/pie fillings. Hungarian kiffles are triangle shaped pieces of dough rolled with a fruit filling, baked, then topped with powdered sugar. Typical fillings include lekvar (prune, apricot, raspberry), nut, and poppy seed. I can't bake the cookies for him because that would be cheating.
Instructions to make Hungarian Kiffles:
- In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar and salt
- In a stand mixer or by hand, cream the butter and cream cheese together until smooth
- Add the egg yolks to the cream cheese mixture
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the cream cheese mixture
- Mix until combined and smooth
- Divide dough into 5 balls and refrigerate overnight
- When ready to roll the dough let it come almost to room temperature
- Using a rolling pin take a dough ball and roll into a circle
- Cut out circles using round cookie cutter or a white wine glass like I did (perfect size)
- Now take the circle and very gently roll once or twice to make an oval shape. The dough should be thin but workable.
- Using 1/2 teaspoon of the filling place it in the middle of the oval and spread it around
- Roll the dough length wise gently pulling the ends to lengthen the kiffle
- After all the kiffles are rolled, place seamed side down on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10-13 minutes until lightly browned
- Cool on a cooling rack
- When ready to serve sprinkle with confectioners sugar
Of the DOZENS of cookie recipes I have, he chooses Hungarian kiffles. They're sorta like a short bread with a jelly filling. Roll the dough length wise gently pulling the ends to lengthen the kiffle. After all the kiffles are rolled, place seamed side down on a parchment. Apricot and Raspberry Hungarian Kiffle cookies!
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