Kipples

Nothing says Xmas to me like kipples.  These are the Xmas cookies of my childhood. Though I am not making cookies this year, since I have the big wedding cookie bake off looming in my future, I still had to make kipples.

 This is not the easiest recipe.  My daughter came to help and after making about 8 of them I think she was questioning whether they are worth the effort. Obviously, I think they are, I make them every year.

I really never see these anywhere else.  I see variations  made with cream cheese but these are actually made with a yeast dough. I still have the recipe written in my mother's handwriting. The recipe was written almost 60 years ago.

I told my daughter that when I was a little girl, I remember sitting at the kitchen table, cracking nuts and picking out the nut meat with my mother. My daughter looked at me and said....OMG, you didn't have a food processor back then did you?  Haha..no food processors even close to existing back then! knife skills came in handy back then.

This is my husband's favorite part.  He gets to eat the failures.  These opened during baking.

And look at my little sidekick.

 Willie had just come back from a walk and napped like this while I baked.