Ohh, lovely choice! 🌙✨ Hókifli (also called Vaníliás kifli) are traditional Hungarian Christmas walnut crescent cookies 🇭🇺. They’re tender, buttery, filled with walnuts, and dusted generously with vanilla powdered sugar that looks like freshly fallen snow (hó = snow ❄️, kifli = crescent 🥐).
These cookies melt in your mouth and are a staple at Christmas time in many Hungarian homes.
🇭🇺 Hungarian Hókifli (Walnut Crescent Cookies)
Ingredients
2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
1 cup (100 g) finely ground walnuts (or almonds/hazelnuts as a variation)
½ cup (60 g) powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (or 1 packet vanilla sugar)
Pinch of salt
For coating:
1 cup (120 g) powdered sugar
1 tbsp vanilla sugar (or a few drops of vanilla extract mixed in)
