Hungarian Kiflis|Kifles| Cookies
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- Food is more than just sustenance. Special family recipes have a way of connecting us to our past and to each other. My family tradition of making Hungarian Kifli Cookies is a way to keep us connected to my grandmother, great grandmother, grandfather(Pop-Pop) and many other relatives. These cookies are so delicious. They are similar to a pastry with a light flaky crust and pastry filling, but they have the crunch and the size of a cookie.
This is just one way to make these. We are not bakers and make no claims on authenticity here :)
Dough recipe for one batch :
8 oz cream cheese
2 sticks of salted butter (0.5 pounds)
2 1/4 cups flour
Any pastry/cake filling (pie filling is too thin)
confectioners sugar
granulated sugar
*elbow grease and stamina also required ;)
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Music: TH-cam Audio Library
Finally. I’m Hungarian and I know how to make these and I found someone else who can too!!! Great job
Hope I can -- trying to make them now.
Yummy food ... nice sharing ... beautiful family 👌💖
Your Mom so young and beautiful 💐
Those cookies look so good and it's so sweet that your mom and sister were there with you. I love the silliness and shenanigans at the end. This video totally has me back in the Christmas spirit......even though it's passed ;) Thank you for sharing!!!
Every Christmas at my gma's I ate these by the dozen! Since she passed i hv not had then. I am going to make them today! I am crying from excitement! Thank you!
I am so sorry for your loss. My great grandma and grandma that started this recipe and tradition are passed and every time we make them it is like they are here with me. I hope you enjoyed them and thanking you so much for letting me know. Hugs!
It is great to see you join forces with your family to produce a Christmas to remember! With your exceptional cooking abilities, I suspect you had a very tasty Christmas! Those pastry cookies looked divine! :)
Cooking/baking with family is one of the highlights of the holiday season, glad you got a chance to do some!
It really is one of my favorite family traditions ! Thank you so much for watching ! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season :)
I make these every Christmas. My Great Aunt was from Hungary, and this is a staple for the holidays. There is only one difference between this recipe and mine though. Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you so much for sharing that! What is the difference? Merry Christmas to you too:)
Just made them, great recipe! Will always do it this way , so good thank you
you have a beautiful family Mel and these cookies came out looking pretty dang amazing! love the shape of them
Thank you for this video Mel! I lost my mom last year but, not the memories. I searched high and low for a recipe similar to my mom's Christmas Kiflis and this is it! The only thing my mom did differently was to scramble an egg and use it to (1) bind the seal -- just a touch of the finger dipped in a tiny bit of yolk to touch the 'leaflets' , fold over, press lightly and they stay sealed shut and, (2) as a final 'wash' over the completed cookie before going into the oven so they come out a golden brown. Upon making my first (ok...and second) tray, my eyes were filled with tears and my heart flooded with love and memories. Nagyon koszonom!
This comment has brought a tear to my eye. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. This is exactly why I made this video because food and our food traditions bring us together so much and they are so important. I love the idea of using egg wash and can't wait to try it this year. Big hugs to you! ❤️ Take care.
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I've never heard of a kiflis before.
Wow, you and your sister look _a lot_ alike!
Very Christmas-y music going on here...
Like little fruit-jelly roll-ups.
Hehe, I liked the silliness segment at the end there!
Anyway, thank you for sharing, Mel. I wish you (all) a terrific year for 2019!
Yes! Totally agree. These kinds of cookies and good Hungarian foods (I'm Hungarian as well), keep me connected to my Mamam as well. She was a great grandma. Happy Christmas to you girls!
Thank you ! I love this tradition and don't know a whole lot of Hungarian foods but any I have had are delicious :) Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :) thanks for watching ♡
@@MelsSimpleMeals I just know the meals we grew up with and many of those, I wasn't able to eat. How about the string beans and gravy with the garlic and paprika? I love that one and still make it today. Christmas was so nice. I love this time of year. Cheers to you and boogie boogie. PS: I got a new air fryer too. DeLonghi. Wow wow. Blows my Cook's Essentials out of the water! Happy 2019!
Wow, Mel! I am impressed. Looks like you guys make a great team and had fun.
We make a great team :) maybe a silly and inefficient team but a great one ;) Thank you so much for watching! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :)
Cute and delicious!
So tasty cookies Recipe
These turned out great! I would never have thought of using powdered sugar to help the dough stick together when folded over. Thanks for the idea, as well as the great video!
They used water to hold together and powdered sugar later on top.
Those cookies looked great and you had help which is even better! Merry Christmas!
I couldn't have done it without them ! Thank you so much for watching ! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas :)
Good job
I love these cookies. I grew up in a neighborhood with mix of European Backgrounds. I'm English, French and Irish. I've made all kinds of cookies that my neighbors would share the recipe. Kifli is one of my favorites. We use the solo filling too! There was an import store in Trenton, NJ where they sold an amazing Lekvar, Apricot and Raspberry Fillings, quite expensive but amazing.
So butiful # 6 🌷🌷🌷
Beautiful family 😍 God bless you all 🌷🌷
Thank you so much ! Thanks for watching :)
Family! Thanks for sharing Mel
Ohhhh yummy! I love family traditions like this. So wonderful!
Thank you so much ! Family traditions are so great ! Thanks for watching :)
Beautiful video! I love the teamwork and the fact that you’re doing this with your family! Great memories ❤️❤️
Thank you ! So important and to have these memories recorded is so exciting. Thanks for watching :) ♡
These look so good Mel! Nice seeing you and your family together. I hope yall had a Merry Christmas.
My aunt just sent me a fresh batch. Omg so yummy even after 40+ years of eating them
My aunt used to make these. Thanks for posting! Happy new year
Those cookies look tasty and adorable! I really enjoyed seeing your mom and sister in the video too. The bloopers at the end were fun. Happy Holidays 😊
Thank you so much ! I had lots of silliness to edit down :) we always have lots of fun ! Thanks for watching and hope you had a wonderful Christmas ♡
Beautiful Cookies Beautiful Ladies, Merry Christmas!!!
Aw thank you ! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas :) ♡
You saved the best for the end Mel! Great video and Cookies!! Made me laugh and hungry! Merry Christmas!
Hehe there was plenty of siliness to edit down :) So glad you enjoyed it ! Thank you so much and thanks for watching! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :)
Those turned out beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Love finding new cookie recipes.
Thank you ! Thank you so much for watching :)
Best Hungarian cookies ive ever had! Maybe the only Hungarian cookies ive ever had but thats not the point lol Hope y'all have a Blessed Christmas! Merry Christmas
Hi Richard ! Thank you so much :) As always they were gone the next day ! Hope you had a great Christmas :)
The key to this dough is that you don’t keep mixing it. The second it’s incorporated you stop.
Fabulous looking cookies there Mel... looked like good fun. 😄😄👌
I love these! We call them kolaches. We make them with apricot and cherry jams. They are required at Christmas. Great video!
Yummy recipe.
Thank you so much ! Thanks for watching :)
Simply awesome video thanks for sharing 🙏🍩Happy New Year to you & your family from a friend from India🍩🍩🙏
Looked tasty Mel, enjoyed the fun clips at the end. Merry Christmas to you and your family !
Thank you so much ! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas :)
My grandma always made these💕
These look great. Never had one before.
Best cookies ever
Yummy. I am a new subscriber to your channel. Your food looks amazing!!!!!!
They look delicious!
Thanks ! Thank you for watching :)
Happy Christmas Eve Mel !!! They look ver yummy , Fabulous job all around !!! Thank you for sharing !!! Big Hugs =)
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :) Thank you so much for watching ! Hugs ♡
Wow. Pro baking Mel ! And helpers just in time for christmas :)
Definitely not pro bakers lol :) we sure have a good time though ! Thank you so much for watching :)
Baking with family is amazing! :) Cookies look incredibly delicious! Happy holidays, Mel! 💖💖
Making them today! Than you!
Wow, delocious. thank you. new here.
They look great merry Christmas 🎄🎄
Thank you ! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas :)
Happy Holidays Babes....This was awesome and great to see your family...sisters yaay & mom yaay 😘😘😘😍😎
Happy Holidays to you too ! Thank you so much for watching :) love being in the kitchen with family !
Yummy, love homemade holiday cookies 🎄😁 Merry Christmas to you and your families 😃🎄🎉
Thank you ! Thank you so much for watching and same to you :)
Hi Mel.....creating memories in the kitchen 😍 I love it. I never made these cookies but they look delicious. Merry Christmas to you and your family ☃️🎅🏻🎄😘 Dolores
You should definitely try these cookies ! I know you would be much better at the baking process than we were lol :) Thanks for watching. Hope you had a very merry Christmas ♡
You all look a like☺. Merry Christmas Mel to you and your family 💜💜💜. I loved the bloopers😂😂. This looks delicious!!
Hehe you can definitely tell we are related :) When my sister has the same haircut as me we really look alike ! Thank you so much for watching ! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas :) ♡
Can I use jam in these? They look great?
Thank you ! I haven't tried jam but you could definitely give it a shot. You just want to make sure it isn't too runny or it could spill out and be very liquidy. Hope it works ☺️
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Lol don't freeze the dough. That look delicious. You your mom and sister are beautiful
Hey its been a while hope your 2019 going well i left a like for you Happy year new to you :)
Hey :) so glad to see you are back ! I just happened to go through my spam comments which I never do and saw this one ! Thank you so much for coming by and showing support :) I can't wait to head over and check out what you have been up to !
One of the best ever hungarian cookie recipe i have ever tried so far. Thanks for sharing this recipe with all of us. Even i have a special hungarian cookie recipe as well. Check out the recipe here: www.theparentingking.com/best-christmas-cookies-easy-to-make-hungarian-cookies-video/
MISTAKE IN THE RECIPE!!! Two sticks of butter are not 1lb! We just made these for the second time and my husband only read "1 lb" so in went FOUR STICKS. I realized once the batter was spread out that something was badly amiss and put everything back in the mixer, doubled flour and c.cheese. Hopefully they will turn out! (fridging the batter for two days)
Oh No!! I am so sorry that happened! I fixed it in the recipe now! Thank you so much for letting me know and I really hope it can still work out.
@@MelsSimpleMeals We test baked several yesterday prior to our bake day today. They were fine (whew!). Your cookies are included in our Christmas 2019 Five Cookie Gift selection. Thanks for a great recipe!
@@MelsSimpleMealsyou should fix it in your video. Not everyone reads comments. I looked for this specifically in the comments because it sure didn’t look like you used 4 sticks. Otherwise looks good. Thanks
Not enough filling
The filling is one of my favorite parts !! If it were possible to put more in I would :) I have made the mistake many times of overfilling and it all just spills out or you can't close them up. If you can get more in, then for sure do it !
They look delicious!
Hey :) so awesome to see you stop by ! I hope you are doing wonderful ! Thank you so much for your comment. Headed over to check what you have been up to ! :)