Cinnamon Walnut Butterhorns Recipes

GRANDMA'S BUTTERHORN COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, salt, and butter until coarse crumbs form. Stir in sour cream and egg yolk until dough comes together--you may want to use your hands. Form into a fat disc shape, wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate 2-3 hours.
• To form cookies, remove dough from fridge and let it warm up for 5-10 minutes while you make the filling.
• In food processor, combine sugar, cinnamon and walnuts. Pulse the mixture until the nuts have practically become almost as small as the sugar granules.
• Next, cut the dough into 4 equal pieces. Flour your board liberally and roll out one piece of dough into a circle that is 12-14 inches across and 1/8 inch thick. You want the circle to be pretty even, but it doesn't doesn't have to be perfect.
• Sprinkle on 1/4th of the sugar walnut mixture over entire circle. Using a sharp knife, cut dough into 12 even triangular pieces (just like you're cutting a pie). Roll up each triangle tightly, starting at the wide end to form crescent shapes. Place onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Continue this process with remaining dough and filling.
• Bake Butter Horns at 300 degrees for 25-30 minutes. I cooked mine for 32 minutes. When you take them out of the oven, they shouldn't be shiny and the dough should be pretty much dry to the touch. At 25 minutes, I could still see a little butter in the dough that was making the dough moist still, so after a few minutes more in the oven, that went away and they looked cooked. As a reminder, if you are using a non-stick darker cookie sheet, these are going to cook faster. You want the bottoms of the cookies to be light brown, not dark brown! So be careful.
• After 5 minutes on the baking sheet, remove to a cooking rack.
• Dust all the Butter Horns with powdered sugar and enjoy!
• I decided to give some away and pack them in these cute little glassine bags! Adorable!

NUT-FILLED BUTTERHORNS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Add sugar; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the butter, cream cheese, cream, sour cream, egg yolks, salt and 2-1/2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and refrigerate overnight., In a large bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add 2 tablespoons sugar, beating until glossy stiff peaks form. Fold in nuts., Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface; divide into fourths. Roll each portion into a 12-in. circle; spread a fourth of the filling over each circle. Add cinnamon if desired to remaining sugar; sprinkle over filling. , Cut each into 12 wedges. Roll up wedges from the wide end; place point side down 3 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Curve ends to form a crescent shape. , Bake at 350° for 17-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. , For icing, in a large bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, butter, extract if desired and enough milk to achieve drizzling consistency. Drizzle over rolls.

VEGAN BUTTERHORN COOKIES

Steps:

• Add one tablespoon chickpea flour and one tablespoon water to a small bowl. Stir and set aside.
• Cut and cube the butter into the flour using a pastry cutter
• Add the vegan sour cream and chickpea egg.
• Mix until well combined. The dough will be the texture of pie dough and will be very fluffy and pillowy. Refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Take the dough out of the refrigerator and cut it into four equal pieces.
• Roll each quarter into a circle
• Mix together the granulated sugar and the cinnamon. Add 4 tablespoons of the cinnamon-sugar mixture to the center of the dough and spread to the edges
• Cut into 8 triangles and starting at the widest end, roll towards the center, forming a crescent.
• Bake for 20 minutes
• While the cookies are in the oven, mix the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla together and set aside.
• Let the cookies cool completely and then dip each cookie into the sugar glaze. Let set for 5-10 minutes and then enjoy!

DANISH BUTTERHORNS

Steps:

• Step 1: Using the bowl of a food processor fitted with a blade attachment, pulse 4 cups all-purpose flour, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 cup unsalted butter (cut into small pieces and chilled). Pulse until butter is pea-sized. Transfer to a large bowl.
• Step 2: Using a small bowl, combine 2 teaspoons sugar, 2 tablespoons active dry yeast and 1/2 cup warm water. Set aside for 10 minutes and allow yeast to bubble and activate.
• Step 3: Using a medium bowl, whisk together 1 cup warmed milk and 2 room-temperature eggs. Add milk and yeast mixtures to the flour mixture. Stir well until combined; dough will be soft. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
• Step 4: Using a medium bowl, combine 1 cup finely chopped walnuts, 1 cup light brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Set aside.
• Step 5: Preheat oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
• Step 6: Using a clean, floured surface, divide the dough into 8 parts. Work with one piece of dough at a time, refrigerate the rest, and shape dough into a disc. Roll into an 8-inch circle. Dust with flour as needed. Cover circle with a thin layer of filling almost to the edge. Cut into 8 wedges.
• Step 7: Beginning at the wide edge, roll toward the center, pinch seam shut and curve crescent slightly. Transfer to prepared pan with the seam end of the dough underneath. Set aside and allow to rise for 1 hour. Alternatively, you can cut dough into squares, bringing two opposite corners to the center and pinch together.
• Step 8: Bake until golden brown, about 12 minutes. Remove from pan, cool on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar, if desired.

CINNAMON WALNUT BUTTERHORNS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine hot milk and butter.
• Stiruntil butter is melted.
• Cool.
• Add in eggs and sugar.
• Dissolve yeast in the warm water and let stand 5 minutes until bubbly.
• Add to milk mixture.
• Beat in flour by hand or with heavy duty mixer, keeping dough satiny.
• Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or up to 4 days.
• Divide dough into 4 parts.
• On floured surface, roll each part at a time to make 12 inch circles.
• Spread each circle with 1/4 of the butter.
• Mix sugar and cinnamon.
• Sprinkle each circle with 1/4 of the mixture.
• Sprinkle each circle with 1/4 of the walnuts.
• Cut each circle into 8 equal wedges.
• Roll each wedge starting with the wide end to make a crescent shape.
• Place on greased cookie sheet.
• Let rise until puffy, about 45 min to 1 hour.
• Mix egg and milk to make glaze.
• Brush rolls with mixture.
• Bake at 375 for 13 to 15 minutes.