LEKVAR COOKIES
Provided by Vintage Recipes by Billie Hillier
Categories Dessert Recipes
Time 20m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Mix together the butter and cream cheese until creamy
- Add flour
- Roll on floured board until 1/4" thick
- Cut into squares
- Fill in squares with lekvar or red raspberry jam
- Fold corners (2 corners) one over the other
- Bake at 420 degrees for 20 minutes
- Roll in powdered sugar while still hot
Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 calories, Carbohydrate 0 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 0 milligrams cholesterol, Fiber 0 grams fiber, Protein 0 grams protein, Sodium 0 grams sodium, Sugar 0 grams sugar
HUNGARIAN KIFFLES
Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
Provided by Lynne Webb
Categories Baking & Desserts
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Whisk the flour and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Beat the cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until very smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing just until combined. The dough will be quite moist, but not sticky.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and flatten into a square approximately 1/2-inch thick. Cut into 4 equal pieces and wrap each separately in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, a minimum of 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F and position a rack in the center of the oven. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Remove one portion of the dough from the refrigerator and place it on a liberally floured surface.
- Dust the top of the dough with flour and cover with a sheet of wax or parchment paper. Working from the center toward the corners, roll the dough out to a 1/8-inch-thick square. It should measure about 9 inches.
- For best results, see our recipe notes below to learn how to roll your dough into a perfect square.
- Using a pastry wheel or a sharp knife, cut your dough both lengthwise and crosswise into small squares.
- Your total yield will depend on how large you make them. We recommend 1-1/2-inches which will give you 36 kiffles per square of dough or about 12 dozen total.
- The best way to keep the size even is to use a ruler and mark all 4 sides of the dough square at intervals with the tip of a knife. You can use the handle of a spatula to guide you as you cut to keep your lines straight as well (similar to drawing straight lines on a sheet of paper).
- Working as quickly as possible, place a small mound of filling (about 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon) in the center of each square. If the filling flavor you're using is relatively smooth you can spoon it into a small freezer bag, snip off a tiny bottom corner and squeeze the filling onto the squares. This works particularly well with the poppy and almond flavors.
- Lift two opposite corners of the dough over the filling and gently pinch them together. Fold that "point" over to one side, moisten the tip of your finger with a bit of water and smooth it down gently on one side of the kiffle. This prevent the kiffles from popping open as they bake.
- Important Note: The various filling flavors spread a bit differently during baking so you may want to fill a few "test" kiffles and bake them to gauge the right amount of filling for each type.
- Arrange the kiffles 1 inch apart on the parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake until barely golden, 12 to 14 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute, then carefully transfer the kiffles to cooling racks.
- Repeat the process with the remaining 3 portions of dough, using different filling flavors if desired.
- Store kiffles between layers of waxed paper in a tightly closed container and refrigerate. Bring them to room temperature (30 minutes out of the fridge), arrange on a plate and dust lightly with powdered sugar just before serving. It's not advisable to top them with powdered sugar before storing.
- Makes 8 to 12 dozen
HUNGARIAN KIFFLES
This is the real deal, direct from my Hungarian descendants. These yummy, delicate cookies are just the right amount of sweetness and are absolutely addicting! Simple ingredients, but do take some work, but well worth it! Always a holiday favorite!
Provided by Rach
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Eastern European Hungarian
Time 8h25m
Yield 36
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Beat butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until pale yellow and creamy. Gradually add 2 cups flour to butter mixture until the dough is too thick for the mixer. Stir remaining 2 cups flour into the butter mixture by hand and knead until dough falls off hands easily. Roll dough into a ball, place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Stir walnuts and sugar together in a bowl. Pour milk into walnut mixture and stir to form a paste.
- Turn dough onto a floured work surface and roll to desired thickness. Cut dough into 2-inch squares. Place about 1 teaspoon walnut filling in the center of each square. Roll the dough from 1 corner to the other corner around the walnut filling and transfer to a baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until light brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 289.4 calories, Carbohydrate 18.3 g, Cholesterol 41.1 mg, Fat 23 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 4.4 g, SaturatedFat 10.1 g, Sodium 110.8 mg, Sugar 6 g
HUNGARIAN CREAM CHEESE COOKIES WITH PRUNE LEKVAR
This is a very flaky cookie that has been in my family years. My grandmother passed it down to all. I've seen it called many other names but in my house we've nicknamed it: Mom's Hurry Up Cream Cheese Cookies, because if your kitchen is too warm they do become a bit difficult to handle. So if you plan on having a day of baking.... do these first! You're gonna love them. NOTE: Very easy to make total time includes refrigeration of 1 hr if your kitchen is warm from holiday baking.
Provided by veraj9170
Categories Dessert
Time 1h20m
Yield 24 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Cream together the cream cheese and butter.
- To this, add the flour - in small portions by hand.
- When it comes together, turn over on a lightly floured surface and add the rest of the flour to form a dough (IT WILL BE SOFT - but it should be smooth)
- Refrigerate for about 1 hour.
- Roll out to about 1/4 inch thick on a floured surface.
- Cut into squares about 2 x 2 and fill center with about 1/4 tsp of the lekvar.
- Bring together opposite corners and pinch and fold over.
- Bake on a lightly greased baking sheet for about 15 - 20 minutes until lite gold at 350F (Be careful not to let them burn).
- While still warm, role in powdered sugar and let cool.
- Once cooled, repeat the powdered sugar coating once more.
- You can use any flavor lekvar or even an almond paste.
- It just has to be really thick so it doesn't run while baking.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 170.5, Fat 14.3, SaturatedFat 8.5, Cholesterol 41.2, Sodium 128.5, Carbohydrate 8.7, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 0.6, Protein 2.3
HUNGARIAN CREAM CHEESE SPREAD
This is absolutely delicious! When I was a little girl my friend Patty's Mum made this for lunch. Serve it on pumpernickle or caraway rye bread with a garnish of green pepper rings...it makes a wonderful and unique sandwich or a spread when entertaining!
Provided by ms.susan
Categories Spreads
Time 5m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- mix cream cheese and paprika.
- (It should become salmon coloured).
- Salt to taste.
- Spread generously over bread.
- Garnish with thin green pepper slices.
- YUM! EAT IT ALL UP!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 205.8, Fat 20, SaturatedFat 12.5, Cholesterol 62.4, Sodium 168.9, Carbohydrate 3.2, Fiber 0.9, Sugar 0.7, Protein 4.7
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