Kiffles recipe

Every Christmas, I make kiffles, lots and lots of kiffles. Many years ago (10 give or take), I swiped the recipe from my mother's ki...

These Hungarian Nut Roll Cookies are a flakey, cream cheese crust wrapped around a homemade walnut filling. The filling is sweet, crunchy, and caramelized around the edges!

Hungarian Kifli Cookies - Rich and flaky traditional Hungarian cookies filled with a light walnut filling. Perfect Christmas cookies!

1) Cream butter and cream cheese till fluffy; gradually blending in sugar. 2) Stir together flour and salt, stir into a creamed mixture. OR...like me, you could just use a...

Authentic Hungarian kiffles, made with cream cheese, butter, and flour with a walnut filling, are always a holiday cookie favorite!

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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…

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.

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.