It's cookie time and everyone is busy baking a variety of classics. After we have already given you tips for vanilla crescents and...juicy Zimtsterfor your Christmas 2021, today we're going to talk about another favorite of all cookie fans - the Hussar donuts, also called angel eyes and Hussar buttons. These are thicker, round cookies made of shortcrust pastry and hazelnuts with a hollow in the middle that is filled with fruity jam. But you can also use other nuts such as almonds or even prepare the dough without nuts. Today we offer you a Hussar donut recipe for each variant. And do you know what's best about them? Not only are they incredibly tasty, but they are also very easy to make.
Husarenkrapfen recipe without nuts or with hazelnuts/almonds
Our first recipe for Hussar donuts without nuts tastes like it came from grandma's kitchen. With just a few simple ingredients you can create wonderful treats that are guaranteed not to last until Christmas Eve. Would you like a nutty aroma? Regardless of whether you want to prepare Hussar donuts with almonds or Hussar donuts with hazelnuts - simply replace 60 g of the specified amount of flour with ground nuts of your choice. For the Hussar donut recipe you need:
For 55 cookies:
- 250 g wheat flour
- 70 g powdered sugar + for sprinkling
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- 1 tsp lemon peel
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150 g kalte Butter
- 2 yolks of medium-sized eggs
- 100 g jam (preferably blackcurrant jelly, raspberry or strawberry jam)
Hussar buttons – make your own cookies with jam
For the Husarenkrapfen recipe, first mix the flour and powdered sugar together and then sift. Then mix with vanilla sugar, lemon zest and salt. For the next step, you'll want to work quickly so that the butter doesn't get warm. That's like inArticle about vanilla kimpferlexplains, important so that the cookies later melt in your mouth without being too brittle. Dice the butter into small cubes, add it to the ingredients and mix everything together as quickly as possible - with a mixer with a dough hook, a food processor or with your hands. Finally, knead in the egg yolks, wrap the finished dough in cling film and put it in the fridge for an hour.
Then preheat the oven to 200 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper. Heat the jam over low heat on the stove until liquid. In the meantime, let the dough warm at room temperature for 10 minutes, then shape it into a roll and cut coins out of this roll. Form them into balls and press hollows into the balls with your thumb or the handle of a wooden spoon (preferably on the prepared baking paper). Fill the jam into the wells and then bake the hussar buttons for 12 minutes. Then dust them with powdered sugar.
Hussar donuts with Nutella
If you would like to prepare the classics in a different way, you can also use Nutella or one instead of jamother chocolate hazelnut creamuse. You don't need a special Husarenkrapfen recipe for this. For this variant, too, you should melt the chocolate before filling the wells, but only afterafteryou baked them. The easiest way to fill them is with a piping bag (or freezer bag with the tip cut off). If necessary, a small spoon also works. Then let the Nutella harden.
Hussar donuts vegan – recipe without animal products
Are you looking for a vegan recipe for hussar buttons? Well, you're lucky because these days there's a vegan alternative for every one of your favorite meals and treats - including theseHussar buttons:
For 25 pieces:
- 150 g wheat or spelled flour
- 40 g ground, blanched almonds
- 60 g powdered sugar + for sprinkling
- 2 packs of vanilla sugar
- 10 g cornstarch
- small pinch of salt
- 115 g cold, vegan butter
- 80g jam or jelly
Recipe for hussar buttons made vegan
Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Cut the cold butter into smaller pieces and knead them with the dry ingredients. Even with the vegan recipe for Hussar donuts, you shouldn't knead it for too long so that the dough doesn't get too warm. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 to 20 minutes.
Line a baking tray with baking paper, form 25 balls out of the dough and use your thumb or a wooden handle to press hollows into the balls to form the angel eyes. Keep in mind that the hollows will get bigger as they bake. Place the tray in the refrigerator, on the balcony or terrace for 30 minutes. Then preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the Hussar donuts for 15 minutes.
Immediately sprinkle the finished cookies with powdered sugar. Heat the jam to liquefy it and fill the wells with it (Nutella is also suitable). For this Husarenkrapfen recipe, you can also fill the cookies with jam before baking (but not with Nutella).
Hussar donut recipe – alternative forms
You can use any Husarenknöpfe recipe to prepare interesting alternatives - for example, you can use salted pretzels to represent Rudolph the reindeer. If you attach two cookies together before baking, you can quickly and easily create snowmen that are sure to please the children. Instead of jam or chocolate, use a white filling - icing or buttercream, for example.
