Monika Csaszni of Redondo Beach was one of the 10 winners of last year’s Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with her Hungarian Isler cookies: “When I was a little girl, during the holidays we ...

What the Scottish call a shortbread biscuit Americans call a shortbread cookie. I call it my cookie crush. Generally comprised of one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour, the seemingly ...

Crumble yeast into sour cream. Let stand 30 minutes at room temperature. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder and butter. Add yolks and sour cream mixture and mix well. Mix dough until it falls ...

to attempt their traditional Hungarian kiffles, key word: attempt. I’ll admit right off the bat this portion of my experiment didn’t go exactly as planned. But there wouldn’t be any fun or truth in a ...

It’s easy to get lost for hours in videos of Hungarian cookie decorating or cookie-decorating bloggers, watching as they weave lace from icing and create elaborate portraits from sugar. Mashable even ...

“When I was a little girl, during the holidays we would go to my grandparents’ house in the countryside. I fondly recall the magical memories of my family and the holidays that this cookie is ...