Hungarian Walnut Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until blended. Gradually beat flour into creamed mixture. Divide dough into 3 portions. Shape each into a disk. Wrap and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. For filling, in a small bowl, beat egg whites and vanilla on medium speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on medium after each addition until well blended. Stir in walnuts., Generously coat a work surface with confectioners' sugar. Roll 1 portion of dough into a 12-in. square about 1/8 in. thick, sprinkling with additional confectioners' sugar as necessary to coat well. Cut into sixteen 3-in. squares., Shape 2 teaspoons filling into a small log about 2 in. long. Place diagonally onto a square. Overlap opposite corners of dough over filling; pinch tightly to seal. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Repeat with remaining dough and filling., Bake until bottoms are golden brown, 9-11 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar., To Make Ahead: Dough can be made 2 days in advance. Wrap and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. , Freeze option: Freeze cookies in freezer containers. To use, thaw before serving. If desired, dust with additional confectioners' sugar.

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.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In bowl of a food processor, process nuts until coarsely ground. Set aside.
• Place egg whites in bowl of an electric mixer with a pinch of salt. Beat until just beginning to stiffen. Add brown sugar and beat until stiff peaks form and the mixture is glossy. Carefully fold in nuts with a flexible rubber spatula.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Drop heaping tablespoons of batter onto parchment. Bake 20 minutes, or until cookies are dark beige and just set.
• Remove from oven and let cookies cool on baking sheet. Remove with spatula, and store in a tightly covered tin.

Steps:

• Mix margarine and cottage cheese.
• Add flour until well-mixed and smooth dough forms.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight, or at least a couple of hours.
• (Shape into walnut-sized balls before or after chilling).
• Roll each ball on floured board to the size of a small saucer.
• (You can mix some sugar with the flour for rolling).
• Make filling by mixing sugar and nuts in blender or food processor till finely chopped.
• Place TSP.
• of filling in center of circles.
• Fold circles in half and seal.
• Form into crescents.
• Sprinkle with sugar and place on ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
• ***NOTE:You may need to make more filling.
• Also, you may adjust the size of the dough circles too for different sized cookies.
• If you do this, you may need to adjust baking time too!

Steps:

• In a large bowl blend the ingredients with a wire pastry blender until the ingredients form when squeezed together.
• Form into balls (or nuggets) by tablespoons; dough will be very crumbly, I press and form them in my palms instead of my fingers.
• Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes until they start to brown around edges.
• Watch them so they do not burn.
• Cool and roll in powdered sugar.
• Store in cool place until serving.