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Crescents made with a cream cheese dough filled with a sweet walnut filling.
Ingredients
- For the dough:
1 pound butter, softened
2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
4 cups all-purpose flour
powdered sugar for rolling
- For the filling:
1 pound finely ground walnuts
1 tablespoon melted butter
1-3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup warm milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Glaze and garnish:
1 large egg, beaten well
powdered sugar for garnish
Directions
- Make the dough:
- Beat together butter and cream cheese. Stir in flour to make a smooth dough. Divide dough into three equal portions, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- Make the filling:
- For the filling, mix together walnuts, butter, granulated sugar, milk and vanilla.
- Assemble the Kiffles:
- Roll dough out a bit thinner than 1/4-inch on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar (not flour) and cut into 3″ squares. Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Place one teaspoon of nut filling on each square and fold over opposite corners to make a triangle. Brush triangles lightly with beaten egg to glaze and bake until golden (about 15 minutes). When cool, dust with additional powdered sugar.
Notes
- These are more properly called Kifli. See our other Kifli recipe here.
- Photo by djv69sd under Creative Commons license.