🇽🇰 Kosovar Cuisine

Hasude

Sweet Walnut Crescents

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Medium
Calories 330 kcal

Delicate crescent-shaped pastries filled with ground walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon, baked until golden then dusted with powdered sugar. These elegant sweets are a Kosovar celebration essential.

Ingredients

  • 300g all-purpose flour
  • 150g butter, cold and cubed
  • 100g powdered sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 tbsp sour cream
  • 200g walnuts, finely ground
  • 80g sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • Powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. 1 Mix flour with cold butter, powdered sugar, egg yolk, and sour cream to form a smooth dough, then chill for thirty minutes.
  2. 2 Combine ground walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon for the filling.
  3. 3 Roll the dough out to about half a centimeter thick and cut into small triangles.
  4. 4 Place a teaspoon of filling on the wide end of each triangle and roll toward the point, curving into a crescent.
  5. 5 Place on a lined baking sheet and bake at 175°C for eighteen to twenty minutes until lightly golden.
  6. 6 While still warm, dust generously with powdered sugar.

Did You Know?

Hasude are sometimes called 'kifle' in Kosovo and are the most-gifted sweet during Bajram celebrations.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/kosovar/hasude/