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Drop me a line -- Love the Hungarian Kifli?

Have you tried the Hungarian Kifli?

From the lens Kifli : Traditional Hungarian Pastry.

Are you familiar with Hungarian Kifli? Love it? Got a favorite recipe for it? What's your favorite pastry?



  • winlin May 23, 2012 @ 8:18 pm | delete
    I'm bookmarking this lens. I love to eat Kifki, it's time I learn to make it.
  • whats4dinner May 7, 2012 @ 7:25 am | delete
    This made me hungry. The Hungarian kifli is definitely worth a try.
  • pawpaw911 May 1, 2012 @ 11:41 am | delete
    Yet another food I need to try.
  • iijuan12 Mar 16, 2012 @ 12:21 am | delete
    My mouth is watering. I love Hungarian food! Liked.
  • KatBar Jan 30, 2012 @ 11:23 pm | delete
    Sounds delicious. May have to try these despite the danger to my waistline.
  • kathysart Jan 28, 2012 @ 1:17 pm | delete
    Ohhh my goodness I am in TROUBLE!! I just happen to have all the ingredients on hand to make these. I cannot resist! Angel blessed.. lol
  • jimmyworldstar Jan 22, 2012 @ 1:23 pm | delete
    What's that filling for the kifti? I don't recognize it in the list of ingredients.
  • John_Michael Dec 31, 2011 @ 10:42 am | delete
    Growing up in NJ, I was fortunate to be included in many wonderful events that gave me the opportunity to enjoy these great pastries.
  • Laura Leach Dec 24, 2011 @ 4:05 pm | delete
    My Step dad's grandmother used to make them for him every Christmas. He guarded them ferociously. Nine years ago I decided to give it a go. The first year, there was to much almond flavoring(?per the recipe). The next year after some adjusting of the recipe(size of cookie and ingredients) they came out just as I remembered them. My dad said they were as good as his grandma's and that is high praise indeed. I now make them every year for him. It take about 8 hrs, but if he's good about it, he can stretch them to last at least till his birthday in May. Happy baking....
  • kifli fan Dec 21, 2011 @ 8:06 am | delete
    My mother-in -law is Hungarian and this is a Christmas tradition for her family. She is now 85 years young and has passed the obligation to my husband and myself. So every year we bake Kiflis for everyone for Christmas. I love it!!
  • aquarian_insight Dec 5, 2011 @ 4:10 pm | delete
    Never heard of these before but sound like something I would love! So, can I blame you for the extra calories? lol Fabulous lens!
  • Hrsshoe Nov 28, 2011 @ 5:01 pm | delete
    Nice lens brought back childhood memories of our Hungerian nieghbours.
  • Phyllis Oct 3, 2011 @ 11:47 pm | delete
    My family were originally from Austria Hungry and the recipe I have of my mom's calls for yeast - but the yeast is not risen --- it is just mixed in with the flour has anyone heard of this? pkramer@shaw.ca
  • Shanir Jul 8, 2011 @ 6:08 pm | delete
    These look amazing!
  • blanckj Jun 2, 2011 @ 8:19 am | delete
    Looks interesting and tasty.
  • cbessa Mar 28, 2011 @ 1:29 pm | delete
    Looks fat, but delicious. I've been doing some experimentations with Croissant-like pastry and some brazilian jellies and creams and i must say they are wonderful too. :-)
  • Ilona1 Feb 21, 2011 @ 3:33 pm | delete
    love it and have two favorite recipes!
  • KonaGirl Jan 13, 2011 @ 12:40 pm | delete
    Fabulous lens and everything looks so good! Is the first recipe yours? That is the one that I want to try baking. I am sure your family recipe will be the best! I have it copied to my home recipes as "Jaguar Julie's Hungarian Kifli". Awesome job, Julie!
  • photofk3 Jan 13, 2011 @ 6:48 am | delete
    I love your Hungarian recipes so much.
  • TeamSTM Jan 6, 2011 @ 12:01 pm | delete
    Wow this is simply put an Awesome Squidoo Lens! I just have one question, is there anything you can't do, you are just to Amazing!!

    Thanks for your continued Inspiration!
  • MiaBellezza Jan 4, 2011 @ 2:15 pm | delete
    Looks Yummy. I'll make it when I have some time.
  • mcochs Dec 25, 2010 @ 8:26 am | delete
    Sounds Delightful! Blessed by a very hungry Squidoo Angel on 12/25/2010. Have a wonderful holiday!
  • Kenny H Dec 23, 2010 @ 1:34 pm | delete
    I am curious if a kiffner a variation of a Kifli ? my maternal grandparents had made these pastries for "years" that they called "Hungarian Kiffner's" ... and I have carried on the tridition [for 25+ years] of making these every year for the holidays as my grandparents did :) Neither of them were Hungarian that I know of ... my [step] grandpa's parents came to the USA from Russia and Germany in the late 1890's... and my grandma was from long family lines in Massachusetts [USA] ...

    I have the recipe as handed down to me, ingredients and directions listed on my website :)

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hedgpeth/hungarian-kiffners.htm
  • ajgodinho Dec 20, 2010 @ 9:40 am | delete
    Thanks for introducing us to Hungarian Kifli. This is the first time I'm hearing about it. I love to experience food from other cultures and looking forward to trying this someday...looks yummy for sure.
  • BuckHawk Dec 19, 2010 @ 10:17 am | delete
    I have to stop reading your foodie lenses before meals, or in between meals, or after meals. I always end up starving for something as delicious as this! And, my jeans are getting tight!
  • prosperity66 Dec 19, 2010 @ 6:36 am | delete
    I had no idea what Hungarian Kifly would be and now I just want to eat some! Thanks for the recipes, the worst cook ever will give them a try!
  • prosperity66 Dec 19, 2010 @ 6:36 am | delete
    I had no idea what Hungarian Kifly would be and now I just want to eat some! Thanks for the recipes, the worst cook ever will give them a try!
  • maxnic11 Dec 17, 2010 @ 8:38 am | delete
    Yummy is correct!
  • Ramkitten Dec 4, 2010 @ 10:48 pm | delete
    Yum yum is right!
  • ZazzleEnchante Dec 1, 2010 @ 1:57 am | delete
    Great lens! Loved reading it, great recipe accompanied with good pics and videos. Blessed by a SquidAngel.
  • Dawn Deri Nov 28, 2010 @ 6:43 pm | delete
    In my Family, my Great Aunt was from Hungary. She and her husband came over and went through Ellis Island on a Boat. Her name was Mary Farkas, and my maiden name is Deri.
    My Aunt never used sour cream in her recipe for Kifli's. She used the same fillings as you've mentioned, however this is her pastry recipe.
    1/2 pound Butter at room temperature
    1/2 pound Cream Cheese at room temperature or till soft
    2 cups of flour
    2-3 egg yolks save the whites for brushing before baking
    pinch of salt.
    Mix all ingriedients together into a soft dough and refridgerate for 4 hours or over night.
    then roll out to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, cut in squares and fill. Bring two sides together from corners and pinch shut. Brush the kifli's with egg white and bake till golden. Let cool and
    sprinkle with powdered sugar.
    I only make these on special occasions, so my family really looks forward to them!!
    This recipe makes a wonderful flaky pastry. I usually fill mine with apricot or walnuts fillings.
  • Mujjen Nov 6, 2010 @ 6:12 pm | delete
    I have never tried kifli, but it sure looks good!
  • awelldressedbullet Sep 11, 2010 @ 6:08 pm | delete
    Julie, Julie, Julie, you always makes the bestest of best lenses LOL, seriously, another lens over the top, I know when I arrive at your lens, I will never be disappointed and usually learn something new. Another absolutely delicious lens! - Squidhugs, Kathy
  • oldbird Jan 11, 2010 @ 3:41 am | delete
    delicious lens... came across yours looking for pastries to go with my coffee!!
    I will try to get my wife to try this! thanks for sharing!
    aloha,
    old bird
  • aerie Dec 29, 2009 @ 10:18 am | delete
    Hey, we made kiflis this Christmas using my Hungarian Great grandma's recipe! We don't form them any of the ways I see on this page, though. We cut out a triangle. spoon a bit of the nut filling onto the bottom edge, and roll it, then bend it into a U around a thumb.

    Our recipe uses egg whites in the filling as well, and we cook it. Whether or not the filling should be cooked was a topic of great disagreement between my grandma and her sister, who both insisted that they did it the way Mom did. :-)

    My Gt. Grandma was a Nagy, too, btw. It was great fun read this lens, as the kifli captures the taste of Christmas for me!
  • bk513@aol.com Dec 18, 2009 @ 10:01 pm | delete
    My kiflies explode!! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The recipe I use calls for walnuts, confectioners sugar, and egg whites for the filling. The dough is flour, sour cream, egg yolks, and butter. If anyone has an idea, I would like to hear. Thanks!
  • kinga Dec 22, 2009 @ 4:29 pm | delete
    Use a little less filling in each kifli and roll a little more loosely to allow for expansion. Even when they explode, they still taste great!
  • Bob F Dec 22, 2009 @ 7:10 pm | delete
    Here's two possible hints I hope will help you: 1) My wife makes kiflies that use filling of plum, apricot, or strawberry PRESERVES. She has had problems if she used jelly instead, as it runs. Only preserves works for her for these. 2) My wife has learned (through similar leakage problems to yours) to control it through pressing down on ends and the seam is also put on top and then is dipped in the egg whites and sugar to enclose it further during baking. A few still leak, but 10% or less of them per batch.
  • Dawn Deri Nov 28, 2010 @ 6:46 pm | delete
    Bk, if they are exploding you may need to just glue the edge down tighter and with egg white before baking. It acts as a glue
  • Debra (Tanazevich) Potts Nov 15, 2009 @ 8:10 am | delete
    Does anyone have a recipe for what my father called Schtangle (sp?). My great aunt used to make these. They were a walnut base, big chunks of walnuts in a kind of gooey sweet binder and topped with crispy crunchy meringue topping? It was heavenly!
  • Debra (Tanazevich) Potts Nov 14, 2009 @ 8:28 am | delete
    I am 1/2 Serbian. My grandmother & great aunt made the best cookies! My sister says that my grandmother grew up near Hungary and that her cooking was very Hungarian. We both miss her delicious cookies, bread pudding, and other dishes like sarma! My grandmother's first name was Leposava! Wish we could turn back the hands of time!
  • dc64 Jul 9, 2009 @ 9:25 am | delete
    I wonder if you have to use margarine? I'm allergic to soy, and so only use real butter. From the recipe, it looks like it would be okay. I'm gonna try it one day. It sounds perfect for Christmas, and that's when I do most of my baking.
  • AndyPo May 20, 2009 @ 2:02 am | delete
    Sounds great I must try this.
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Apr 26, 2009 @ 6:36 am | delete
    Sounds and looks yummy.
    Why do I always read food lenses when I'm hungry?
  • Sojourn Apr 20, 2009 @ 1:56 am | delete
    That's it. I have to make these sometime in the next week. My grandmother used to make these when I was a little girl and my mother makes an excellent version with a fruit paste I love. I'm ashamed to say my own children have never had a kifli cookie so I'm bookmarking your lens and determined to make them for my boys! :)
  • Susan52 Mar 25, 2009 @ 6:58 pm | delete
    These look and sound remarkable, melt-in-the-mouth good! Thanks for adding this lens to my Easter Desserts lens!
  • J. szanton Dec 21, 2008 @ 6:53 am | delete
    Help! years of getting artyriosc but need Grandma Nana's lost "pogachal" lemon cooky recipe to make it work right. Anybody out there got it? (Hungarians may get to the pearly gates a bit earlier but they're smiling).
  • marylou Dec 20, 2008 @ 9:51 pm | delete
    I think my mother used to make these Kifli's but she would use yeast in making the dough, plus she used Lukvar..(prune butter?) for one filling, and then the ground walnuts also.
  • Jewelsofawe Dec 5, 2008 @ 12:36 pm | delete
    Looks delicious!
  • gary muzzillo Nov 25, 2008 @ 7:51 pm | delete
    i am looking for what my grandmother used to make,,,i am spelling it wrong ,but it sounds like chedakas,,,,they are cut in diamond shapes then the top is pulled though the middle fried then powders is put on top help me
  • lakeerieartists Sep 10, 2008 @ 5:42 pm | delete
    I am so hungry now! Welcome to the Comfort Food Group!
  • Shawna-Tayler Sep 4, 2008 @ 11:55 pm | delete
    YUM! I can't cook for nothin' so I just buy mine at a place called O&H Danish Bakery, Inc. 5 stars to you!
  • pixie_styx17 Aug 26, 2008 @ 1:11 am | delete
    great lens, those Kifli look really good!
  • a_willow Aug 16, 2008 @ 5:45 am | delete
    You are making me soooo hungry! :)
  • KimGiancaterino May 22, 2008 @ 12:43 pm | delete
    Our favorite Hungarian baker just retired from the Farmer's Market, and we really miss his baked delicacies. Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z... our first entry in the 'K' category!
  • greg2213 Apr 13, 2008 @ 6:49 pm | delete
    Wow, this does look yummy. I think I'll have some for breakfast! I'm fowarding the link to this lens (and your Basa lens) to my favorite cook.

    We brought World Of Warcraft's Savory Deviate Delight into the real world. In-game it turns you into a Pirate, which is a little more exotic than anything found in Hungary or elsewhere. Unfortunately, in the real world it's just a tasty Halibut dish.:)
  • funwithtrains Mar 17, 2008 @ 11:26 pm | delete
    Sounds delicious!
    Please visit my Z Scale Trains lens.

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