Christmas Cookie Fun!
2009 December 23
I arrived in Florida today to spend the Christmas holidays with my family. Of course, my sister and I couldn’t resist spending some time baking in the kitchen. We had SO much fun! I wish we lived closer to each other so we could spend more time together…especially creating sweet treats in the kitchen. Tonight, we made a Hungarian cookie that my mom makes every Christmas. We chose to use cherry and almond fillings for this batch of cookies, but there are many other flavors that you can use.
Hungarian Kifli
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 lb butter, softened
1 lb cream cheese, softened
1 can of pastry/pie filling
1/2 cup confectionary sugar
Directions:
- Mix the flour, butter, and cream cheese until well blended, and knead dough until it holds.
- Place in freezer for 10 minutes.
- Roll out dough on a floured surface.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut out small circles of dough.
- Place 1 tsp of filling in center of each circle.
- Fold two sides of the circle towards the middle and pinch them together to seal.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
- After cooling, sprinkle the cookies generously with powdered sugar.
You and your sis are so cute with the sugar on your face!! You cookies look great and I really like the sound of the almond filling!
Such a cute pic! The cookies look great!
Great cookies, we make Polish ones just like those. One my my faves.
Happiest of Holidays!
These cookies look delicious Megan! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
LOVE those cookies and they are so beautiful!!!
happy holidays!
oh my! This looks absolutely scrumptious!
Sounds so easy and so delicious! Happy holidays!
These look so yummy, I am going to try them. The pic of you and your sis is so cute!