How to Make Hungarian Cookies

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By doriangirl
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This is yet another of my grandmother's Hungarian recipes. It is a delicious cookie, one that everyone in my house looks forward to each Christmas, but it's also good anytime of the year!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Your favorite sugar cookie recipe (or some pre-made sugar cookie dough)
Apricot Jelly
Crushed Walnuts
Egg Whites
Lemon Juice
Thimble
Baking Sheets

Step 1

Roll out your sugar cookie dough and use a cookie cutter to cut it into shapes. I usually cheat and use store-bought dough, the Pillsbury kind, shhh. The cookies will sandwich the jelly, so if you want to end up with 20 cookies you need to make 40 sugar cookies.
Step 2

Place half of the sugar cookies aside. Take the other half and use the thimble to make a hole in the middle of each cookie.
Step 3

Brush a thin layer of egg whites on one side of the cookies with thimble holes in them and sprinkle on some crushed walnuts. The egg whites act as an adhesive so the walnuts will stick.
Step 4

Bake all of the cookies.
Step 5

The measurements for this step depend on how many cookies you've made and how much jelly you'd like on each. Like most recipes passed down it doesn't require precise measurements. Take a half cup of jelly in a bowl and mix in some lemon juice, just enough so that it thinner. Taste it, and it should taste like slightly tangy apricot jelly (yum!)
Step 6

Spread the jelly and lemon juice mixture on the cookies without the thimble holes and walnuts.
Step 7

Place the walnut-covered cookies onto the jam-covered cookies to make little sandwiches. If you squish it down a little the jelly will pop through the hole and it makes them look really cute.