Pogacsa- Hungarian Butter Cookies
Servings 5 dozen
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour sifted
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp whiskey
- 2 tbsp sour cream
Topping
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup nuts chopped fine
Instructions
Dough
- Combine dry ingredients
- Cut in butter with pastry blender.
- Beat egg yolks with fork, blend in whiskey and sour cream.
- Stir into dough, blend well.
- Shape into ball; wrap in wax paper; chill 2 hours
- Cut off slices from ball; roll on lightly floured surface generous 1/4" thick.
- Cut with 1 1/2" cookie cutter.
- Dip top in beaten until frothy egg whites/
- Place on un-greased cookie sheets.
- Sprinkle with mixture of sugar and nuts.
- Bake in upper third of over at 376 degree F oven about 18 minutes.
- Loosen cookies immediately with spatula.
