Recipe: Hungarian Nut Cookies

Ah and here is our famous recipe. Everyone asks us for these cookies every holiday season, and it has come to be that time again! We have made them tonight to take to our friend's house tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Hopefully you can make your own cookies sometime and get just as much love and praise as we have in the past! The cookies have even won multiple baking awards! 

Follow the photos at the bottom to complete the cookies once the dough and filling are made.

Hungarian Nut Cookies

Dough:

4 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon salt

½ pound cream cheese, softened

½ pound butter, softened

Work all ingredients well with hands to form dough.

Add 6 egg yolks and ½ cup milk

Mix well; roll dough into 2-inch balls

Refrigerate balls to chill

Filling:

2 pounds walnuts

6 beaten egg whites

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ cup sugar

1 pound white/golden raisins (seedless)

Grind walnuts and raisins together with food processor.

Add beaten egg whites, vanilla, and sugar. Mix well.

To prepare cookies:

Place sugar on rolling surface. (1)

Roll dough balls to form a circle. (2 & 3)

Cut circles into triangle using pizza cutter. (4)

Fill each triangle with ½ teaspoon filling. (5 & 6)

Roll triangle to form a crescent. (7 & 8)

Place on a greased cookie sheet (9)

Bake at 350 degrees until lightly golden

 

Vanishing Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

(This is a slight adaptation from the Quaker "vanishing oatmeal raisin cookie" recipe. I obviously used chocolate chips instead!)

Made these for my mom to take to work one day, I hear that they really were vanishing!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1stick) plus 6 tbsp. butter, softened
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt (optional)
• 3 cups Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
• 1 cup chocolate chips (or raisins. Or nuts... whatever you prefer!)

Steps:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy.
2. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
3. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well.
4. Add oats and chocolate chips (or other additives); mix well.
5. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
6. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

 

Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
Bar Cookies: Bake 30 to 35 minutes in ungreased 13x9 inch metal baking pan.

As I said before, I used chocolate chips instead of raisins. partly because I like chocolate chips more and partly because we didn't have raisins. Also, I greased my baking sheet anyway, because you never know.