Hungarian Kifli Cookies🇭🇺

Perfect choice, Ashley! 😍 Hungarian Kifli Cookies (Vaníliás Kifli)🇭🇺 are delicate crescent-shaped shortbread cookies, buttery and nutty, coated in vanilla sugar. They’re especially popular around Christmas, but Hungarians enjoy them year-round with coffee or tea.


🇭🇺 Hungarian Kifli Cookies (Vaníliás Kifli)

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup (120 g) finely ground walnuts (or almonds/hazelnuts)
  • ½ cup (100 g) sugar
  • 1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

For coating:

  • ½ cup (60 g) powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp vanilla sugar (or powdered sugar mixed with a few drops of vanilla extract)

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