🇭🇺 Hókifli – Hungarian Walnut Crescent Cookies

Absolutely, Ashley! Here’s a traditional Hungarian Christmas recipe for Hókifli (also known as vaníliás kifli or walnut crescent cookies) — buttery, melt-in-your-mouth crescent cookies filled with ground walnuts and coated in vanilla sugar. These are beloved all over Hungary during the holidays. 🇭🇺❄️✨

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🇭🇺 Hókifli – Hungarian Walnut Crescent Cookies

🧁 Yield: ~40 small crescents

⏱️ Time: 30 min prep + 15 min baking

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🧈 Dough Ingredients:

• 250 g (2 cups) all-purpose flour
• 200 g (1 3/4 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
• 100 g (1 cup) finely ground walnuts
• 70 g (1/2 cup) powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
• Pinch of salt
• Optional: zest of 1 lemon for a citrus touch

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🥄 For Rolling/Coating:

• 100 g (1 cup) powdered sugar
• 2 packets vanilla sugar (or 2 tsp vanilla powder/extract mixed into sugar)