Kifli Recipes

HUNGARIAN KIFLI II

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Stir in the egg yolks and vanilla. Stir together the flour and baking powder. Add the flour mixture a little at a time until it is fully incorporated. Divide dough into 5 parts, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate overnight.
• in a medium bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks, add sugar a little at a time while continuing to beat to stiff peaks. Fold in ground walnuts, and set aside. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into 3 inch squares, place 1/2 teaspoon of filling in the center of each square and roll up from corner to corner. Place on cookie sheets and refrigerate until hardened.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Roll in confectioners' sugar when cool.

KIFLI RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Take a large bowl and add yeast, sugar, and water, stir, and let it stay for 10-15 minutes. 2. In a separate bowl, add the flour, make a hole in the middle, and fill it with milk, yogurt, eggs, oil, and salt. 3. Add the yeast mixture from step 1 to the flour mixture and mix it well. 4. Start kneading the dough (it shouldn't be too sticky nor too dry). If you want to, you can use a stand mixer with a dough hook. 5. Spray some cooking spray and sprinkle some flour in your mixing bowl, move the dough there, cover it and keep it aside. 6. Make small cuts in the crust and keep it aside for 20-30 minutes. 7. Add some shredded feta cheese to a bowl and keep it aside for later. 8. Turn on your oven to 200˚C (400˚F). 9. Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and fold the dough on all sides. 10. Divide the dough into half and cut both halves into three equal pieces. Fold the pieces into balls before rolling them. 11. Take the first ball and roll it out into a medium-sized circle. 12. Cut the ball into 2-3 equal pieces, add 1 tbsp of cheese in the middle of every piece, and close the first kifla by pulling together the widest parts of the dough and tucking them inwards. 13. Repeat the process as many times as needed and add some baking sheets to your pan before placing the kifli inside the oven. 14. In the meantime, mix together 1 or 2 beaten eggs and water until the mixture combines. 14. After 7-8 minutes of baking at 200˚C (400˚F) before glazing the kifli with a mix of beaten eggs and water. 15. Bake for 10 more minutes and sprinkle some sesame seeds before turning the heat off (in the end, the kifli should have a golden-brown color). 16. Serve it with some yogurt, ajvar, or a dish of your choice, and enjoy!

EASY SOUR CREAM KIFLI

Steps:

• For dough:.
• Cut butter into flour.
• Mix egg yolks with sour cream and add to flour mix.
• Mix well.
• Divide dough into 6 or 8 parts.
• Flatten each into small patty shape.
• Wrap each patty in plastic wrap and chill at least 6 hours or overnight.
• For filling:.
• Combine nuts, sugars, and lemon rind and set aside.
• Beat egg whites a little with a fork and set aside.
• To assemble:.
• Remove one patty at a time from fridge and roll out on a floured board to a 9" circle.
• Now smear some egg white over the circle of dough.
• Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of sugar/nut mixture over that.
• Cut into 12 pie-shaped wedges.
• Roll up, curve into crescent shape, dip tops in egg whites, then in nut mixture and arrange on prepared cookie sheets.
• Repeat with balance of dough.
• Bake at 350 degrees F. for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Makes 72, 96, or more, depending on how many times you divide the dough.

VANILLA KIFLI

Steps:

• Cream together the butter with the sugar in a large mixing bowl. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour.
• Turn into a ball, cover and let stand at room temperature for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• To form the crescents, roll about 1 Tbsp of the dough in the palms of your hands. Then continue rolling to form a rope about 3 inches long and 1/2 inch thick. Bend rope to form crescent. Repeat with remaining dough, placing on ungreased cookie sheets about 1 inch apart.
• Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes. Cookies should be white in color. Let cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes to prevent breaking. Then, while cookies are still warm, carefully roll in vanilla sugar. (May be found in bulk food stores). Repeat with remaining cookies. Cool cookies completely.
• Melt chocolate in a double boiler set over low heat. When cookies are cool, dip tips of each cookie in melted chocolate, then set on waxed paper to dry.

KOSSUTH KIFLI (HUNGARIAN CAKEY COOKIE AKA HALF MOONS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter and flour bottom and sides of a 9-by 13-inch cake pan.
• In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream together butter and granulated sugar.
• Add egg yolks, one at a time, and beat until fluffy.
• Add vanilla, lemon rind and lemon juice and beat to combine.
• Gradually add in baking powder and flour.
• In a medium bowl using electric mixer on high speed (with clean beaters), beat egg whites until stiff.
• Fold egg whites into batter.
• Gently spread batter into prepared pan.
• Evenly sprinkle top with finely chopped walnuts and bake 25 to 30 minutes.
• Remove to a wire rack.
• Cool until cake shrinks away from sides of pan (about 15 minutes).
• With a small round biscuit cutter (or a glass), periodically dipped in powdered sugar, cut one circle (don't remove it), then cut another circle halfway down the first one, making two crescents and one oval scrap.
• Remove from pan and repeat (you can eat the oval scraps;).
• Cool crescents completely and dust with powdered sugar.
• Store in a tightly covered container for up to 2 days.

KIFLI (WALNUT YEAST COOKIES) RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Sift Flour into large bowl, cut in shortening as for pie. Warm 1 cup Milk add Yeast. To other cup of Milk add Egg Yolks & beat. Make a well in Flour mixture, pour in Milk, Eggs and Yeast mixture. Mix well, knead slightly until smooth, form into 8 or 10 balls. Refrigerate at least 8 hrs or overnight. Roll out on Sugar. cut triangles, put in Walnut or Prune filling, roll up. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets 400 deg. 8 to 10 mins.