Vanilla Kifli
Submitted by: Nancy Gavlak
" A Hungarian holiday cookie. "
Ingredients
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg yolks
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup vanilla sugar
2 ounces semisweet chocolate
Directions
1 Cream together the butter with the sugar in a large mixing
bowl. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour.
2 Turn into a ball, cover and let stand at room temperature for
2 hours.
3 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
4 To form the crescents, roll about 1 Tbsp of the dough in the
palms of your hands. Then continue rolling to form a rope about
3 inches long and 1/2 inch thick. Bend rope to form crescent.
Repeat with remaining dough, placing on ungreased cookie sheets
about 1 inch apart.
5 Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes. Cookies should be white in
colour. Let cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes to prevent breaking.
Then, while cookies are still warm, carefully roll in vanilla
sugar. (May be found in bulk food stores). Repeat with remaining
cookies. Cool cookies completely.
6 Melt chocolate in a double boiler set over low heat. When cookies
are cool, dip tips of each cookie in melted chocolate, then set
on waxed paper to dry.
Makes 30 cookies
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