"Toronto's Katinka Oszter shares her mom Eva's traditional Hungarian cookies recipe - Vanillas Kifli (vanilla crescents).
Katinka's family looks forward to these. .
" *Vanilla sugar is available in the baking section of most supermarkets, in bulk food stores and baking supply stores.
Beat butter with sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Beat in yolks and vanilla.
Gradually beat in flour.
Turn out onto counter and knead as you would bread until well combined.
Form into a ball, cover with a bowl and let stand at room temperature for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 375F.
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.
Bake on centre sheet of preheated oven for about 10 to 12 minutes.
Cookies should be white in colour.
To prevent breaking, cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.
Then, while cookies are still warm, carefully roll in vanilla sugar.
Repeat with remaining cookies.
Cool cookies completely.
Meanwhile, melt chocolate in a double boiler set over simmering water.
When cookies are cool, dip tips of each cookie in melted chocolate, then set on waxed paper to dry.
Per cookie: 111 calories, 1.
protein, 5.
fat, 14,2 carbohydrate, .
fibre, 5 mg calcium, .
mg iron