Best Hungarian Cream Cheese Cookies With Prune Lekvar Recipes

LEKVAR COOKIES

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Provided by Vintage Recipes by Billie Hillier

Time 20m

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

1/2 pound butter, softened
1/2 pound cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 pounds flour (4 cups)
Lekvar or red raspberry jam

Steps:

Mix together the butter and cream cheese until creamy
Add flour
Roll on floured board until 1/4" thick
Cut into squares
Fill in squares with lekvar or red raspberry jam
Fold corners (2 corners) one over the other
Bake at 420 degrees for 20 minutes
Roll in powdered sugar while still hot

Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 calories, Carbohydrate 0 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 0 milligrams cholesterol, Fiber 0 grams fiber, Protein 0 grams protein, Sodium 0 grams sodium, Sugar 0 grams sugar

HUNGARIAN KIFFLES

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This is the real deal, direct from my Hungarian descendants. These yummy, delicate cookies are just the right amount of sweetness and are absolutely addicting! Simple ingredients, but do take some work, but well worth it! Always a holiday favorite!

Provided by Rach

Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Eastern European Hungarian

Time 8h25m

Yield 36

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 pound butter, softened
1 pound cream cheese, softened
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 pound walnuts, ground
1 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons milk, or more as needed

Steps:

Beat butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until pale yellow and creamy. Gradually add 2 cups flour to butter mixture until the dough is too thick for the mixer. Stir remaining 2 cups flour into the butter mixture by hand and knead until dough falls off hands easily. Roll dough into a ball, place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Stir walnuts and sugar together in a bowl. Pour milk into walnut mixture and stir to form a paste.
Turn dough onto a floured work surface and roll to desired thickness. Cut dough into 2-inch squares. Place about 1 teaspoon walnut filling in the center of each square. Roll the dough from 1 corner to the other corner around the walnut filling and transfer to a baking sheet.
Bake in the preheated oven until light brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 289.4 calories, Carbohydrate 18.3 g, Cholesterol 41.1 mg, Fat 23 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 4.4 g, SaturatedFat 10.1 g, Sodium 110.8 mg, Sugar 6 g

HUNGARIAN CREAM CHEESE COOKIES WITH PRUNE LEKVAR

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This is a very flaky cookie that has been in my family years. My grandmother passed it down to all. I've seen it called many other names but in my house we've nicknamed it: Mom's Hurry Up Cream Cheese Cookies, because if your kitchen is too warm they do become a bit difficult to handle. So if you plan on having a day of baking.... do these first! You're gonna love them. NOTE: Very easy to make total time includes refrigeration of 1 hr if your kitchen is warm from holiday baking.

Provided by veraj9170

Categories Dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 24 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 (8 ounce) jar prune jam

Steps:

Cream together the cream cheese and butter.
To this, add the flour - in small portions by hand.
When it comes together, turn over on a lightly floured surface and add the rest of the flour to form a dough (IT WILL BE SOFT - but it should be smooth)
Refrigerate for about 1 hour.
Roll out to about 1/4 inch thick on a floured surface.
Cut into squares about 2 x 2 and fill center with about 1/4 tsp of the lekvar.
Bring together opposite corners and pinch and fold over.
Bake on a lightly greased baking sheet for about 15 - 20 minutes until lite gold at 350F (Be careful not to let them burn).
While still warm, role in powdered sugar and let cool.
Once cooled, repeat the powdered sugar coating once more.
You can use any flavor lekvar or even an almond paste.
It just has to be really thick so it doesn't run while baking.