Wonderful choice! 🥐✨ Hungarian Kifli Cookies 🇭🇺 are tender, crescent-shaped cookies that melt in your mouth. They are especially popular around Christmas and holidays, often filled with nuts, poppy seeds, or fruit preserves, and dusted with powdered sugar.
Hungarian Kifli Cookies 🇭🇺
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ cups (300 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- ½ cup (120 ml) sour cream
- 2 egg yolks
- Pinch of salt
- ½ cup (60 g) powdered sugar (for dusting after baking)
Filling Options (choose one or mix):
- Nut filling: 1 cup (100 g) finely ground walnuts + ½ cup (100 g) sugar + 1 egg white
- Poppy seed filling: 1 cup (100 g) ground poppy seeds + ½ cup (100 g) sugar + warm milk to bind
- Fruit filling: thick apricot or plum jam