Italian Sour Cream Horns Food

MOM'S CREAM HORNS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F.
• Unfold and place thawed one sheet at the time of dough onto a dusted with flour working surface.
• Roll out the dough into a square. Use a pizza cutter to slice the dough into ¾ inch wide strips.
• Place them onto a greased pan.
• Bake then in preheated oven for 18 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Remove from the oven.
• Remove each horn from the mold hot to prevent from horn sticking to the mold. Use a towel to hold the end of the mold so you don't burn your hands. Let the horns cool completely before filling with cream.
• Beat softened cream cheese until smooth and creamy in texture.
• Add powdered sugar and mix it together increasing mixer speed gradually (unless you want to stand in a dust cloud of powdered sugar) until all combined and smooth to texture with no lumps.
• Scrape down the mixer bowl to remove stuck cream cheese and beat on high until thickens.
• Scrape down the mixer bowl again, to make sure all the cream cheese is removed from the walls of the bowl and beat the cream once more for about 15 seconds.
• Finally, add liquid heavy whipping cream to the cream cheese mixture, start beating on low gradually increasing mixing speed. As the heavy whipping cream gets combined with the cream cheese it will liquefy more. The frosting will thicken during the mixing process. Do not overbeat the frosting! As soon as it starts to hold its shape the frosting is ready.
• Fill a decorating bag and Wilton 32 attachment with cream halfway (it's easier that way to squeeze the cream into horns). Pipe the cream into each end of the horn.
• Place them into an airtight container and refrigerate for at least 8 hours. Dust horns with powdered sugar before serving. If you like horns crunchy, omit to refrigerate part.

ITALIAN CREAM STUFFED CANNONCINI (PUFF PASTRY HORNS)

Steps:

• Warm up the milk until hot (not boiling).
• In a medium sized pan, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, vanilla extract and flour, until light and fluffy.
• Add the milk some at a time while whisking, making sure there are no lumps.
• Place the pan over medium heat and stir continuously until it reaches a slow boil. The cream will thicken, so be careful not to let it stick to the bottom. Lower the flame and cook for a couple of more minutes, until you reach the desire thickness.
• Pour the cream in a glass bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let it cool down. Refrigerate for at least one hour.
• Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
• Sprinkle some sugar on the counter and on top of the puff pastry and roll it out to a rectangle about 9 by 12 inches.
• Cut into 12 stripes (about 1 inch thick). Easy way to do it: cut the pastry in three parts, and then each part into four strips.
• Roll each strip onto a horn mold (conical in shape). The pastry has to overlap (about half of the length).
• Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with seem (end of the strip) side down.
• Beat one egg with one tablespoon of water. Brush lightly each pastry cone with the egg wash.
• Make sure you keep the egg wash away from the mold. It will make it harder to remove the pastry horn from the mold once baked.
• Bake at 400°F (200 °C) for about 15-20 minutes until golden on top.
• Let them cool down for a couple of minutes and gently remove from the mold. If the pastry sticks to the mold, you can press in the mold a little (to make the circumference smaller) and very gently turn it inside the pastry until it comes off.
• Before serving, fill with the cream using a piping bag. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if you like, and enjoy!

ITALIAN SOUR CREAM HORNS

Steps:

• For dough: Dissolve yeast in warm water. Sift flour; add salt. Add butter, eggs yolks, sour cream.
• , vanilla and dissolved yeast mixture to flour mixture; work with hands until a moist dough forms. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours, or overnight.
• Divide dough into eight pieces. Dust rolling pin and work surfaces with powdered sugar. Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll out dough to about 1/8 inch thickness (slightly thinner than pie dough, more like noodle dough).
• Cut dough into a circle approximately 8 inches in diameter. (You may want to use a stainless steel bowl and just press out a circle). Refrigerate dough circle. Continue rolling and cutting remaining dough, refrigerating circles as you go. Re-roll leftover dough pieces and cut into circles.
• Cut each circle of dough into 16 triangular pieces or wedges.
• For filling: Beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add sugar; beat until stiff. Fold in pecans and vanilla.
• Spread 1/2 teaspoon filling on each triangle of dough; roll up, beginning with largest end. Place roll, small end down, on greased cookie sheet.
• Bake in a 350 degrees F oven 10 to 12 minutes, or until slightly browned on bottom. Immediately transfer to racks to cool.
• Sift powdered sugar over cooled cookies. Store in airtight container. Yield: About 10 dozen cookies.

MOM'S NUT HORNS

Steps:

• Cut butter into flour in a bowl using 2 knives or a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sour cream and egg yolk; mix well. Shape the dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Combine walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.
• Cut dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a 1/8-inch thick circle on a lightly floured surface. Spread 1/4 of the walnut mixture on each circle; cut each circle into 12 wedge-shaped pieces with a pizza wheel.
• Shape each piece of dough into a crescent by rolling dough from the wide end of the wedge into the center. Transfer cookies carefully to the baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Watch cookies carefully as they bake; their bottoms tend to brown faster than their tops.

HOMEMADE CREAM HORNS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Unfold puff pastry sheet and use a pizza cutter to slice pastry into 6 even strips. Wrap each strip around a conical cream horn mold starting at the pointed end. Place rolled molds on a baking sheet with the end of the dough strip facing down.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 12 minutes.
• Remove horns from oven and allow to cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes, before carefully removing molds.
• Beat cream cheese and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed for about 1 minute. Add lemon juice and vanilla extract and beat until blended. Fold in whipped topping until filling is smooth and fluffy.
• Fill a pastry bag with cream filling and pipe filling evenly into each horn. Dust horns with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate 30 minutes before serving.

ITALIAN HORNS

Steps:

• Combine cream cheese, ricotta, olives with pimiento and garlic in processor bowl and process until smooth.
• To make each horn, place a piece of prosciutto on work surface and spread with a layer of cheese, top that layer with a slice each of Genoa and ham layered next to each other. Spread more cheese over the salami and ham and place a bread stick and a celery stick at 1 end of the meats with ends hanging off to the side. Wrap and roll the meat forming a fancy Italian horn. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
• Arrange a platter with antipasti and garnish with a pile of Italian horns.

ALMOND HORNS

Steps:

• Line cookie sheet with parchment or foil.
• In a food processor combine almond paste and sugar.
• Mix until the texture of fine crumbs.
• Add egg white and flour, reserving yolk.
• Mix until dough becomes smooth paste, it will be slightly sticky.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
• With floured hands roll dough into a 12" log.
• Divide into 12 equal pieces and roll into balls.
• Roll balls between palms into 3" logs, slightly tapered at ends.
• Spread almonds on a plate.
• Beat reserved egg yolk with 2 tablespoons of water.
• Dampen log with beaten yolk.
• Roll each log in almonds until coated, bending into crescents.
• Place crescents 2" apart on prepared cookie sheet and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Bake 12-14 minutes or until light golden in color.
• Cool baking sheet on wire rack for 5 minutes, and loosen crecents with a spatula.
• Slide parchment off baking sheet and back onto wire rack to finishing cooling cookies.
• Melt chocolate in double boiler or microwave.
• Dip cookie ends into melted chocolate.
• Place back on parchment until chocolate is dry.
• Layer "Almond Horns" between sheets of wax paper in airtight container.

SOUR CREAM BUTTER HORNS

Steps:

• Cut margarine into flour.
• Add egg yolk and sour cream.
• Shape into 4 balls and let them chill in the refrigerator (usually overnight).
• Roll balls into a circle so the dough is thin.
• Combine the sugar, cinnamon, and walnuts in a separate bowl.
• Sprinkle the dough with the nut mixture.
• Cut the dough into 16 triangle pieces.
• Roll each section.
• Once placed on cookie sheet, brush with the egg white and if desired, sprinkle a little bit of the nut mixture on top.
• Bake 25 min at 350.

OLD WORLD BUTTER HORNS

Steps:

• Add salt to flour and sift if needed.
• Use a food processor to quickly cut chilled butter and cottage cheese into flour as with making any pastry dough (process until dough forms ball). Two dinner knives will also work well, if a food processor is not available.
• Divide dough into 4 equal parts, form into balls, wrap in plastic wrap and chill overnight or for at least 4 hours.
• Remove chilled dough balls from the refrigerator one at a time and sprinkle with flour.
• Roll each ball into a 8-10 inch circle on a well floured surface.
• Cut circles into 8 wedges (pie slice style).
• Place 1 teaspoons of cooled filling near edge of wide end of wedge, roll up towards small end and form each cookie into a crescent (horn).
• Place folded side down on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven (400F) for 15-20 minutes.
• Place on rack to cool and sprinkle immediately with powdered sugar.
• FILLING.
• Place all filling ingredients into heavy saucepan (cast iron preferred).
• While stirring continuously, cook until it forms a thick solid sticky mass.
• Set aside to cool thoroughly before use.