German Egg Yolk Cookies Eier Kringel Recipes

GERMAN EGG YOLK COOKIES (EIER KRINGEL)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Put the hard cooked egg yolks through a wire sieve. (To do this easily, press them through with your fingers). Add the raw egg yolks and mix well.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar; add the egg mixture and mix thoroughly. Stir in the flour, cardamon, and lemon zest; blend well. Chill dough for 1 hour.
• Roll out small portions of the dough at a time on a lightly floured board to 1/8" thickness. Cut with a 2 1/2" cookie cutter. Brush with egg white, then sprinkle the tops with the sugar and almond mixture.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for about 10 minutes, or until delicately browned.

VEGAN "EGG YOLK" SUBSTITUTE

Steps:

• In a microwave-safe bowl, whisk together flours and water until smooth.
• Heat for 2 minutes, beating with a hand mixer halfway through.
• Add oil and beat in well - add enough extra oil to make the consistency of the mixture like beaten egg yolks - this mixture should be smooth, thick, and stirrable, with the consistency of canned icing.
• Use immediately or store tightly covered in the fridge up to 1 month.
• This will replace 2 yolks.

BETHMAENNCHEN - GERMAN CHRISTMAS COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Finely grind the measured almonds.
• Break the marzipan dough into small pieces and mix with one of the eggs, rosewater, powdered sugar, ground almonds and flour.
• Separate the remaining egg and beat the yolk, set aside.
• Form marzipan mixture into balls the size of walnuts.
• Press three almond halves onto the sides of each ball. The almonds should stand up and down and be evenly spaced around the ball.
• Brush each ball with the beaten yolk and place on a cookie sheet.
• Place cookie sheet on the middle rack and bake 15 minutes until golden brown.

EIER KRINGEL (RASPBERRY-FILLED COOKIES)

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Press the egg yolks through a wire tea strainer or egg ricer into the butter-sugar mixture. Add the liqueur and mix well. Gradually add the flour and salt, mixing as you go, to form a dough.
• Divide the dough into three balls, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the chilled balls of dough, one at a time, from the refrigerator and roll between two sheets of wax paper to a thickness of about 1/4-inch. Gently remove the top layer of wax paper.
• Using one large and one medium-size heart-shaped cutter, cut the cookies according to these directions: Cut pairs of large hearts from the dough, then, using the medium heart cutter, cut out a heart shape from the center of half the cookies to form heart-shaped rings; be careful to stay away from the edges so the cookies remain strong.
• Save the smaller hearts cut from the rings and bake with the larger hearts and heart rings. Gather up dough scraps into a ball and refrigerate. Bake the hearts and heart rings on an ungreased baking sheet for 8-10 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned. Cool on a rack. Repeat the entire process with each chilled ball of dough.
• To assemble the cookies, spread the flat side of each large heart-shaped cookie with ham and top the jam with a heart ring, flat side down. Dust the top with sifted confectioners' sugar and fill the center with additional jam. Sandwich the smaller hearts cut from the heart rings, together with jam and dust the tops with confectioners' sugar.

EGG YOLK COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Separately, beat egg yolks and add extracts and salt.
• Add beaten egg yolk mixture to creamed butter and sugar.
• Blend well.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and cream of tartar).
• Add dry ingredients to creamed butter, sugar and egg mixture, mixing until well blended.
• Form into balls about the size of a walnut.
• Roll balls in sugar, place on greased cookie sheet or parchment lined cookie sheet, and slightly flatten.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes, depending on desired softness/crispness.

GERMAN SWEET & SOUR EGGS AKA SUESS-SAUER EIER

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a skillet and have ready a cup or two of hot water.
• Whisk in the flour and cook until brown, stirring constantly--be careful not to burn the flour.
• Add a small amount of hot water to the pan, whisking well, to create a sauce-like consistency, adding and whisking as needed.
• Whisk together the vinegar and the sugar, then add as much or as little to the sauce as you like (taste and adjust if necessary).
• Cook eggs however you like them (pan fried, hard boiled, etc) and serve with the sauce and some potatoes, if desired.