Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
You can't have Christmas without these traditional Polish kifli (kiflies). These Eastern European walnut cookies are delicate, buttery, and perfect for any time of year. But if you're looking for an easy and melt-in-your-mouth dessert to celebrate holidays, this recipe is exactly what you need!
Authentic Hungarian kiffles, made with cream cheese, butter, and flour with a walnut filling, are always a holiday cookie favorite!
You can't have Christmas without these traditional Polish kifli (kiflies). These Eastern European walnut cookies are delicate, buttery, and perfect for any time of year. But if you're looking for an easy and melt-in-your-mouth dessert to celebrate holidays, this recipe is exactly what you need!
Apricot Kolacky Cookies (kiffles) have flakey cream cheese pastry dough wrapped around an easy apricot filling! These two-bite cookies are buttery, crisp and addicting.
Kiffles seem to be a Pennsylvanian take on a traditional Hungarian pastry called "kiflis." A kiffle is a triangle shaped piece of dough rolled will a fruit filling, baked, then topped with powdered sugar. Typical fillings include apricot, poppy seed, lekvar (prune,) nut, and raspberry. This pastry is virtually unknown in my section of Pennsylvania but is widely known in the Lehigh Valley. It seems as though, these popped up some time in the 1980s and have traveled the area by word-of-mouth and recipe swaps until they became a ubiquitous Christmas pastry in the area. I got these recipes from Andy's Aunt Linda, who is known as the best kiffle maker in his family. She graciously taught us how to make them on Saturday and they really are delicious. The Recipes Apricot Kiffles Ingredients: - 1/2 lb Butter - 1/2 lb Margarine - 16 ounces Cream Cheese - 4 cups Flour - 4 cups Apricot Filling Mix all ingredients together, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. The next day, cut the dough into 8 equal parts. Remove one piece and place the others back into the refrigerator. Roll 1 piece into a ball, then roll out thin on a floured surface. Spread 1/2 cup of filling onto the dough, leaving a half of an inch gap at the edges. Cut into 12 pieces as if you are slicing a pie. Roll up each piece and bake on parchment paper. Bake at 350 for 7 minutes on the bottom rack and 7 minutes on the top rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar directly before serving (optional.) Combine all ingredients. Mix with hands. Spread with filling and cut like a pie. Roll each piece up Bake, sprinkle with powdered sugar, enjoy! For the Nut Version: Ingredients: -1/2 Lb Butter -1/2 Lb Margarine -4 cups Flour - 2 Egg Yolks (save whites) -1 ½ cups Sour Cream Filling: -4 cups Ground Walnuts -3 cups Sugar -2 tablespoons Cinnamon These are made the same as the apricot ones except that the egg whites are spread on the dough and the nut mixture is sprinkled on top. They are surprisingly easy to make, and the nut ones look really pretty. I hope everyone is having a good holiday season so far! I can't believe the month is almost over.
(Video of Kiffle Making Process Included at Bottom) One of the big themes I want to emphasize about Allentown is cultural interaction an...
These Polish kiffles are a Christmas staple in my husband's family! The easy cream cheese dough surrounds pie filling to make them look like little jewels.
Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
These are classic and amazing Polish pastries called kiffles. This Christmas cookies recipe is a beloved family recipe that should be on your holiday table!
(Walnut-Top, Poppy Seed- Bottom L, Apricot- Bottom R) In my house, the week leading up to Easter is a baking extravaganza. And the same busyness was mirrored yesterday at the East European Market in State College. Dessert fillings were flying off the shelves and Easter breads were on sale all throughout the store. I bought as much lekvar as I could carry and restocked my supply of poppy seed filling. Kiffles are traditionally thought to be Hungarian and have been a favorite of mine ever since I was little. At home, we usually stuff them with walnuts, apricot, lekvar and/or poppy seed filling. Although they are considered cookies, I'd stay they are more like pastries. We use a cream cheese based dough which becomes buttery and flaky after baking. Ingredients: For the dough: Cream Cheese--- 6 OZ All Purpose Flour--- 2 CUPS Salted Butter--- 1 CUP (2 sticks) Water--- As needed For the filling: Walnut Filling--- Recipe HERE Apricot Preserves Lekvar Poppy Seed Filling--- Recipe HERE STEP BY STEP: Dice chilled butter and combine with cream cheese using a hand blender Add flour 1/2 CUP at a time and mix until ingredients are combined. Add a little water to the dough if it is still not completely pliable. Knead dough until smooth and not sticky. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours (can be refrigerated over night) Preheat oven to 350F Once time has passed, flour a work surface and rolling pin. Roll out dough to about the same thickness as you would a pie crust With a pizza cutter, make 2"x 2" squares from the dough Scoop 1 TSP filling per each square. Fold dough edge over edge (it helps so wet edges with water) Line a baking pan with parchment paper and bake kiffles at 350F for 15 minutes Remove from oven and let cool.
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Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
A tin of flaky, buttery Eastern European treats makes a perfect gift for family and friends.
Crescents made with a cream cheese dough filled with a sweet walnut filling.
Kiffles (kiflis) are traditional Hungarian cream cheese pastry cookies with assorted fruit and nut fillings like apricot, almond, and poppy.
Hungarian Kifli Cookies - Rich and flaky traditional Hungarian cookies filled with a light walnut filling. Perfect Christmas cookies!
Apricot Kolacky Cookies (kiffles) have flakey cream cheese pastry dough wrapped around an easy apricot filling! These two-bite cookies are buttery, crisp and addicting.
