Hussars Kisses Recipes

HUSZARCSOK (HUSSAR'S KISSES)

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream butter and sugar, beat well then add yolk and 1 egg; mix just until flour is blende.
• Cover dough with plastic wrap, chill for 45 minutes.
• Pinch off walnut-size pieces of dought and shape into balls with floured hands. Put on ungreased cookie sheet, with a clean pencil or finger make a deep depression in the center of each ball. Beat remaining egga nd brush cookies with it, sprinkle with nuts.
• Bake for 15 minutes or until golden, cool then fill depression with jam.

HAZELNUT KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Toast hazelnuts in oven on a rimmed baking sheet until skins split and flesh turns deep golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.
• When nuts are cool enough to handle, rub off as much of the skin as will come off easily. Let cool completely.
• Process nuts in a food processor with 1/4 cup sugar until very fine.
• Beat egg whites with the salt in the bowl of an electric mixer (or by hand), until soft peaks form. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, and beat until egg whites hold stiff (but not dry) peaks.
• Add nut mixture, flour, and vanilla to egg whites; beat until just combined. Refrigerate, covered, until cold, at least 1 hour or up to 1 day.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat baking mat. With cool, dampened hands, mold heaping tablespoons of dough into pyramid shapes, each about 1 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/4 inches high. Transfer to lined sheet.
• Bake cookies until edges and bottoms begin to brown, 15 to 18 minutes.