Thanks for sharing your recipe. I did add 1-tsp of vanilla to filling. I used saran wrap when I rolled out dough with rice flour and it worked great. So glad you liked them! They are my favorite holiday cookie.

I like the idea of adding vanilla to the filling, I might try that next time! Loved it and had to hunt up a recipe.

Thanks for sharing! Thanks so much for posting this. Hers is not the gluten free recipe, but delicious just the same. I have lost my ages old recipe and cannot find one like it anywhere. this comes close but my grandmother and my mom used butter, flour, egg yolks and heavy cream in their dough.

I just cannot for the life of me remember the order of mixing. I do know the butter was just softened and not melted. Do you have your non gluten free recipe available? Everything in the gluten free recipe is the same except the flours. So instead of the flours, starches, and xanthan gum, use 4 cups of regular flour and you have the original recipe that I have.

Order of mixing is the same as the recipe here. I hope that helps some! It never feels like Christmas until I make these cookies 🙂. My recipe uses a full dozen eggs. I cream the butter, add yolks one or two at a time, then sour cream and finally the flour.

Recipe is as follows:. Dough Ingredients 1 lb. SWEET unsalted butter-DO NOT USE MARGARINE 1 dozen egg yolks JUMBO size 1 pint sour cream 5 cups unbleached flour. Filling Ingredients 1 dozen egg whites JUMBO size ½ teaspoon of cream of tartar 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 ½ -2 boxes 2 Ibs.

powdered sugar 2 Ibs. ground walnuts. Dough Soften butter and beat until creamy. Add egg, one at a time, so that the dough stays fluffy.

Add sour cream and beat. Add flour one cup at a time. Roll into little balls, and refrigerate for at least four 4 hours or you can freeze them. A teaspoon of dough is about right for one ball. Filling Beat egg whites until stiff very stiff.

Add cream of tartar and vanilla to egg whites and beat. Add sugar slowly test after adding 1 ½ boxes. Add more sugar if you prefer a sweeter filling. Add nuts and mix well. Roll balls, fill and roll into crescents.

Bake until golden in a ° oven. Remove from oven, place on wire racks to cool, and sprinkle with powdered sugar. I too was born in South Bend and started making Kieflies with my mom when I was just a little girl. SWEET butter not salted DO NOT USE MARGARINE 1 dozen egg yolks JUMBO size 1 pint sour cream 5 cups flour.

Filling Ingredients 1 dozen egg whites JUMBO size ½ dash cream of tartar 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 ½ -2 boxes 2 Ibs. Add egg, one to two yolks at a time, so that the dough stays fluffy. I was raised in South Bend and my mother used to make Keflies for Christmas.

I am so glad to find this recipe! I must admit I have never heard of these cookies, but instead used the dough for mincemeat pies….. the little half moon shaped ones, not too unlike your kieflies Oh what a joy to eat flakey, rich filled pastry!! And the glutonous people liked them too!

I cant wait! They do not say GF on them but my husband and daughter have seemed ok with them. I too grew up in South Bend and now have a daughter and son-in-law there. I am delighted to have a gluten free version of the recipe my grandmother used to indulge her family with every Christmas!

It is such fun to read this, hear about all these folks who grew up in S. and remember the same traditions that my family had! Thank you for sharing and for the wonderful memories! Is it ok if I fill these pastries with jam rather than the walnut filling and what jam would you recommend?

Thank you so much for this recipe gluten free. My grandma made these and so does my mom. I think the spelling was more like Kiefels. Maybe someone in our family was dyslexic before that was a thing. My grandma never made the walnut paste, she just added chopped walnuts into the batter, rolled them into balls and baked.

Mom always double batches them, usually twice. Since discovering a gluten intolerance, I have missed them. So thank you!! Kiflies actually Hungarian, but made by both Hungarian and Polish. For those of you making them, try putting rum in the filing in lieu of the vanilla…so much better!

i grew up in south bend and lived next door to my grandma, who made kiefles every christmas. i also have carried on the tradition of making this very good cookie and the family will fight over them.

so, i usually package some up for each member of the family, to keep peace. i use apricot preserves in the filling to keep them moist, the walnuts seem to dry them out. These are in fact a Hungarian cookie.

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