Viennese Orange Kisses Food

VIENNESE ORANGE KISSES

Steps:

• Cream butter, sifted icing sugar and rind till fluffy, Add cornflour mix well. Add sifted flours gradually, beat well till smooth.
• Fill into a piping bag with star tube and pipe 2.5cm stars onto lightly greased oven trays, Bake in mod oven for 15 minutes until pale golden brown. Cool on racks.
• Sandwich cookies together in pairs with orange cream filling, dust with icing sugar.
• Orange Cream, beat soft butter with sifted icing sugar till smooth, add a few drops orange food colour and orange juice.

CHOCOLATE VIENNESE KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease two, 12 cup mini muffin pans and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, butter, and sugar. Beat at medium speed until mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
• Add sour cream and vanilla. Beat at low speed until soft dough forms.
• Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Place 1 ball into each prepared muffin cup.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
• Remove from oven and immediately press kiss into center of each cookie. Let cool in pan 1 minute. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

NUTELLA KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375*.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt, whisk to combine.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the Nutella, sugars and butter. Cream for about 3 minutes, then add the vanilla and egg. Blend until combined.
• Stir in dry ingredients just until combined.
• Shape cookie dough into walnut-sized balls, then roll into the extra sugar. Place on cookie sheet about 4 inches apart.
• Bake for 8 minutes, pull rack out and place a kiss into the center of each cookie. Cookie will get the cracks from this. Push rack back in and bake an additional 3 minutes.
• Remove to a wire rack to cool.

GINGER KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°C.
• Combine the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a medium saucepan.
• Stir over a low heat until butter has melted and mixture is smooth.
• Beat eggs until thick and mix in alternately with sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger.
• Bake small spoonfuls on greased trays for 10-12 minutes.
• Let them cool down completely then sandwhich together with custard filling.
• For the custard filling, mix icing sugar, custard powder and butter in a bowl until combine.
• Add little bits of milk into the bowl to make the mixture turn into an icing. Don't make it too runny, but if you do, simply add in more icing sugar.
• I found that when I sandwhiched the kisses together they didn't stay together and the custard filling ran a little bit but it tasted so good! So I wrapped the kisses with cellophane and let the filling set! : ).

ORANGE KISSES (BREAKFAST ROLLS-BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Remove dough from your machine after the dough or manual cycle is completed.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form a large ball.
• Divide into 16 portions.
• Form into balls, and coat each ball with softened butter.
• Roll in orange-sugar mixture.
• Place 8 balls into a 9" pie pan.
• Allow to rise until dough doubles, about one hour.
• Bake at 350 degrees or until just golden brown.
• Success HInts: Use only the orange portion of the orange rind.

HUSZARCSOK (HUSSAR'S KISSES)

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream butter and sugar, beat well then add yolk and 1 egg; mix just until flour is blende.
• Cover dough with plastic wrap, chill for 45 minutes.
• Pinch off walnut-size pieces of dought and shape into balls with floured hands. Put on ungreased cookie sheet, with a clean pencil or finger make a deep depression in the center of each ball. Beat remaining egga nd brush cookies with it, sprinkle with nuts.
• Bake for 15 minutes or until golden, cool then fill depression with jam.