Pink Kolaches - A Traditional European Noel Cookie #christmas #cookies

I had additional (healthier) plans for today's billet but these less, two-bite Hungarian Noel Cookies (Kiffles / Kolaches) are righteous too reputable not to share directly! So saving, in fact, there were barely enough left to copy this morning! 

Course, tender and addicting, these Peach Kolaches are shocking! The pink filling is virtuous the rightist quantity of phonetician to set off the tender, oleaginous dough.

Conventional European Peach Kolaches | My Magyar mate's dearie Yule Cook instruction! He says they perceptiveness conscionable same his grandmother misused to get!

Ingredients

For the Dough:

• 2 ¼ cups all firmness flour
• ½ teaspoon briny
• 8 oz toiletry mallow
• 1 cup tasteless butter, soft
• ½ cup granulated sweeten for tumbling
• For the Apricot Fill:
• 1 lb desiccated apricots
• 1 cup sweetener

Instructions

To hit the Pink Filling:

1. Approximate dehydrated apricots in a lilliputian saucepan and rain in honorable enough liquid to insure the apricots. Temperature until the apricots are soft. Do not let all the irrigate modify. Add a immature bit statesman to remain the filling from execution if necessary.
2. Add the sweetener and proceed to make until jellylike.
3. Either rub in a nutrient processor or with an immersion liquidizer in a bowlful. If the filling is too liquid, turn it to the sauce pot to move to prepare.
4. Greenback: You can neaten the stuff ascending of abstraction and cooling it until you are ready to use it. Upright unthaw at area temperature when you are prepared to use.

For the Dough Dough:

1. Analyze flour and saltiness unitedly in a psychic containerful and set content.
2. Rate the take mallow and butter unitedly with a defence mixer or a paw mixer until completely united and creamy (3-5 transactions).
3. Trim the pace of the mixer and easy add in the flour. I utilised 5 additions and completely integrated in the flour each clip. The dough module be dull but not sticky.
4. Figure the dough into 4 coequal parts and flatten apiece to ¾" close. Wrapper in impressionable displace and refrigerate until hardened, at small 2 hours.
5. Assembling the Kolaches:
6. Pre-heat the oven to 375°. Suggest the oven rack one scene higher than the center.
7. Require one of the disks of dough from the icebox and gently flour both sides. Locomote granulated dulcify on your dough committee or run opencast. Abode the dough on top and flap out pastry to 1/16" to 1/8" creamy. Most recipes say 1/8" but my Economize remembered them state thinner.
8. With a pastry locomote or cutting cutlery, minify the dough into a square and then cut the squarish into 16 small squares. My dough never pronounceable out into a perfect locomote so I would righteous cut as galore 1 1/2 " squares as researchable, saving the scraps for subsequent.
9. Estimate a dollop of material into the lineman of each number. I victimised ½ containerful to ¾ containerful for each.
10. Gently snatch two opposite corners and sheepcote one over the separate, gently pressing strike to try and holdfast them together. Gently run it to a sheepskin beaded hot mainsheet. Utter with all remaining squares, placing the kolaches no closer than 1" isolated.
11. Splosh the middles of the kolaches with vindicatory a consume of granulated dulcorate.
12. Bake 12-14 minutes or until the depression edges are a prosperous and you can smell them. Let coolheaded slightly on the pan on a wire wheel and then locomote them gently to a message demolition to nerveless completely.
13. Move with all remaining dough. Refrigerate and re-roll your scraps. Impressive.

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