Hungarian Kiffles
Hungarian Kiffles

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, hungarian kiffles. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. Hungarian Kiffles (Kifles) as they are called there are little traditional cookies found at many family gatherings and especially around the holidays.

Hungarian Kiffles is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Hungarian Kiffles is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hungarian kiffles using 8 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hungarian Kiffles:
  1. Make ready 3 cups unsifted flour
  2. Make ready 3 tablespoons sugar
  3. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt
  4. Get 2 sticks butter (room temperature)
  5. Take 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
  6. Take 3 egg yolks
  7. Get 3/4 lb apricot butter
  8. Get Confectioner's sugar

In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar and salt. Kiffles are traditional Hungarian pastries that are made during the holiday season. These pastries are hand rolled paper thin and then stuffed with pastry/pie fillings. I can't bake the cookies for him because that would be cheating.

Instructions to make Hungarian Kiffles:
  1. In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar and salt
  2. In a stand mixer or by hand, cream the butter and cream cheese together until smooth
  3. Add the egg yolks to the cream cheese mixture
  4. Slowly add the flour mixture to the cream cheese mixture
  5. Mix until combined and smooth
  6. Divide dough into 5 balls and refrigerate overnight
  7. When ready to roll the dough let it come almost to room temperature
  8. Using a rolling pin take a dough ball and roll into a circle
  9. Cut out circles using round cookie cutter or a white wine glass like I did (perfect size)
  10. Now take the circle and very gently roll once or twice to make an oval shape. The dough should be thin but workable.
  11. Using 1/2 teaspoon of the filling place it in the middle of the oval and spread it around
  12. Roll the dough length wise gently pulling the ends to lengthen the kiffle
  13. After all the kiffles are rolled, place seamed side down on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet
  14. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-13 minutes until lightly browned
  15. Cool on a cooling rack
  16. 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. (Video of Kiffle Making Process Included at Bottom). One of the big themes I want to emphasize about Allentown is cultural interaction and growth. 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.

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