{"id":3608,"slug":"vanilla-kifli","title":"Vanilla Kifli","description":"Vanilla kifli is the traditional Hungarian holiday cookie.","ingredients_raw":["¾ cup unsalted butter, softened","½ cup white sugar","1 teaspoon vanilla extract","2 egg yolks","2 cups all-purpose flour","½ cup vanilla sugar","2 squares (1 ounce) semisweet chocolate, chopped"],"ingredients_norm":["unsalted butter","white sugar","vanilla extract","egg yolk","all purpose flour","vanilla sugar","squares semisweet chocolate"],"steps":["Cream together the butter with the sugar in a large mixing bowl. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour to make a dough.","Shape into a ball, cover, and let stand at room temperature for 2 hours.","Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).","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 ½ inch thick. Bend rope to form crescent. Repeat with remaining dough, placing crescents on ungreased cookie sheets about 1 inch apart.","Bake for about 10–12 minutes. Cookies should be white in color. Let cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes to prevent breaking. Then, while cookies are still warm, carefully roll in vanilla sugar. Repeat with remaining cookies. Cool cookies completely.","Melt chocolate in a double boiler set over low heat. When cookies are cool, dip tips of each cookie in melted chocolate, then set on waxed paper to set."],"categories":["Cookie recipes","Recipes for cookies","Recipes using butter","Recipes using vanilla","Recipes using egg yolk","Hungarian recipes","Dessert recipes","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using dark chocolate","Recipes using all-purpose flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Vanilla_Kifli","source_ref":"4515345","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Vanilla_Kifli&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"382493eab60180d6420488637d712d45645f436b2a1ffe7fe54e73d40df3554f","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:30Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/vanilla-kifli"}