Vanilla Crescents – Hungarian Christmas Cookies
Vanilla Kifli. Photo taken by tedkaiserphoto.com.
These crescent shaped cookies known as “Vanilla Kifli” are a common treat made during the Christmas hoildays in Hungary. There also known as “Vanillekipferl” in Austria.
This recipe uses vanilla sugar which is available at most bulk food stores or farmers markets.
Ingredients
1 cup (225 grams) unsalted butter
1/2 cup (115 grams) vanilla sugar, plus extra for dusting
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup (170 grams) ground almonds
2 cups (220 grams) all-purpose flour
Directions
In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla until incorporated. Add the ground almonds and flour. Beat until soft and smooth.
Roll dough into a large ball, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 400F (200 C) and line a standard baking sheet with parchment paper.
Remove dough from fridge. Cut dough into 1 cm wide pieces, roll and form crescents.
Bake cookies for about 10 -12 minutes or until light brown on the bottom. Immediately remove to a rack to cool for 5 minutes.
While cookies are still warm, sprinkle vanilla sugar on top. Cool cookies completely on a rack.
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I’ve been looking for this recipe for ages and these look delicious! Thanks for posting this, I’ll be baking these for christmas…
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Hi Mary,
If you can’t find vanilla sugar you can also use granulated sugar and confectioners’ sugar for dusting.
I hope the recipe works out for you.
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Thanks for the tip, I’ll keep that in mind…
…peace
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We make something similar but with walnuts. And we stopped making the crescent shape years ago (too time-consuming) and just roll them into balls and roll the balls in powdered sugar. They’re sooo good!
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Thanks Megan. That’s a good idea too!
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Thanks for your kifli recipe. I also make a kifli similar but my filling is walnuts, jam, lemon zest and powder sugar. I will have to try yours. My mother always made them for the holidays.
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Ez is egy vaniliás kifli, de ehhez nem kell tojás. Mindig ezt készítem. 25 dkg liszt, 20 dkg vaj vagy margarin, 10 dkg porcukor, 10 dkg darált dió, egy csipet só, kb. 10 dkg vaniliás cukor, amibe forgatjuk. A tésztához való anyagokat összegyúrjuk, ceruza vastagságú rudakat sodrunk, majd 5 cm-es darabokra vágjuk. Kissé meghajtjuk hogy kifli alakja legyen. Süt?papírt tegyünk a tepsibe, úgy nem ragad le. Közepes t?znél egész világosra sütjük (amikor kivesszük, még egész puha, óvatosak legyünk.) Még forrón beleforgatjuk a vaniliás cukorba. Nagyon finom! Boldog ünnepeket és jó étvágyat!!
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i love these! my gram was hungarian and she told me a tip once for vanilla infused sugar….take a vanilla bean, cut it in half lengthwise and place it in a plastic baggie or tupperware with a couple cups of sugar and let it infuse for about a week. vanilla sugar! yum!
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This is a vanilla twist, but you do not need eggs. This always made.
25 g flour, 20 g butter or margarine, caster sugar 10 g, 10 g ground walnuts, a pinch of salt, approx. 10 g vanilla sugar, into which is rotated.
The dough material to pucker and pencil thick bars strands, then cut into 5 cm pieces. Drives to be slightly crescent shape. Baking paper, place the pie-pan, it does not stick out. Moderate fire, quite light bake (when removed, yet the whole soft, careful.)
Is still hot into a twist of vanilla sugar. Very tasty! Merry Christmas and a good appetite!
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Hi Kati,
I use eggs in this recipe for structure and as a leavening for the cookies. Otherwise, they would crumble.
Merry Christmas to you as well.
Köszönöm!
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Hi, my grandmother made a cookie that she rolled out, cut with pinking shears, slit the center then twisted inside out. It looked like a bow tie and was finished with powdery sugar. Is this the same recipe or similar one? They were amazing.
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