hi, it's Kailea! with all this holiday talk i wanted to post a small re-cap of my mom's infamous Hungarian Kiefles (aka cookies) that she makes every year for thanksgiving day but they make yummy holiday cookies too!!
what you will need:
the dough:
1 1/2 cups Flour
1/4 lb. butter (a great vegan alternative is earth balance)
1/4 cup cream cheese (vegan alternative: vegan cream cheese from Galaxy Nutritional Foods. can be found at Whole Foods)
the filling:
optional between the two:
2 cups chopped walnuts
1 1/4 cups of sugar
3/4 cups of water
OR
fruit filling (jelly is a great supplement to making your own fruit filling)
do it:
1. to prepare the dough, mix all ingredients together and roll into small balls (approximately 25) and let sit overnight in the refrigerator.
2. the following day: preheat the oven to 350 degrees
3. roll out the small balls into flat little saucers
4. to make the walnut filling, combine walnuts, sugar and water together into a small mixing bowl into consistency is pretty dense
5. use teaspoon size amounts of the filling and place onto the small saucer-like size pieces of dough
6. roll the dough to cover the filling, leaving the ends open for ventilation
7. place on an un-greased cookie sheet and cook for 25 minutes.
8. take out of the oven and viola! Hungarian Kiefles!
xo
- kay
