Ukrainian Butter Horns Recipes

BUTTER HORNS

Steps:

• I use my Bosch mixer with dough hooks to make these, but you can make them by hand as well.
• Into the mixing bowl put yeast, sugar and hot water.
• Melt margarine and crisco and add to mixing bowl.
• Add about 4 cups of flour, then the eggs and salt.
• Add the remaining flour until dough is clean from the sides of the bowl.
• This may differ and not necessarily be 9 cups, it could be less or maybe more.
• Let the mixer knead the dough a couple of minutes.
• Place dough in large greased bowl (tupperware fix-n-mix) and cover.
• Then let rise about 20-30 minutes or till lid of tupperware pops off.
• Punch down.
• Preheat oven to 400 deg F.
• Roll dough into about 9" circles, 1/3 inch thick.
• Cut each circle into 10- 12 wedge-shaped pieces.
• (Wide end should be about 2 1/2- 3 inches wide).
• Roll up each wedge, starting at wide end and rolling to the point.
• Place on greased pan and finish doing this to all the dough.
• Let rise, covered with a clean teatowel and a plastic sheet on top of the towel (like a heavy plastic bag cut open).
• The plastic keeps the rolls from drying out as they are rising.
• Bake at 400 deg F for about 8- 10 minutes or until golden in color.

BUTTERHORNS

Steps:

• Make the dough: Combine flour, butter, sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl. Using a pastry blender or your fingertips, cut butter into flour, until the butter is the size of small peas.
• In a medium bowl, stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk, then add beaten egg yolks and almond extract. Pour yeast mixture into the flour mixture and stir lightly, handling as gently as pie crust, until the shaggy mass comes together in a sticky ball. Cover dough with plastic wrap and let rest in the refrigerator overnight.
• Make the filling: The day you plan to bake the butterhorns, combine the sugar, almonds, 2 tablespoons heavy cream, flour and almond extract in a separate medium bowl. It should resemble a wet sand with bits of nuts. If the filling is dry, add another tablespoon of cream. Set aside.
• Assemble the butterhorns: Lightly grease 3 baking sheets. Remove pastry dough from the refrigerator and divide dough into three equal rounds (about 13 ounces/365 grams each). Keep the other rounds refrigerated while you work with one piece. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a 16-inch circle on a lightly floured surface. Cut each circle into 12 wedges, like you're cutting a pizza. Place 1 heaping teaspoon of filling just inside the curved edge of the wedge, leaving a 1/2-inch border.
• Fold the closest two corners over the filling to avoid leakage, then roll tightly all the way up to the point. (It should look like a little croissant.) Arrange pieces on a greased pan 2 inches apart, 12 butterhorns per pan, making sure that the point is tucked under to prevent it from unrolling while rising. Repeat with the remaining dough rounds. Let horns rise, uncovered, in a warm location until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
• About 30 minutes before you're ready to bake, heat the oven to 365 degrees and make the frosting: Combine confectioners' sugar, melted butter, heavy cream and almond extract in a large bowl, and mix until creamy and spreadable. Cover and set aside.
• Bake butterhorns for 12 to 15 minutes, until a light brown. Frost while still warm, and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

UKRAINIAN BUTTER HORNS

Steps:

• Beat butter at high speed and sugar gradually, creaming until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolk and vanilla extract.
• Beat in almonds, then flour.
• With hands, shape 1-inch pieces of dough into crescents.
• Place on ungreased baking sheets, about 1 inch apart.
• Bake at 350 degrees F.
• for about 20 minutes, or until just golden on edges.
• While warm, coat crescents with confectioners' sugar.