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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. For dough: Dissolve yeast in warm water. Sift flour; add salt. Add butter, eggs yolks, sour cream. | 2. , vanilla and dissolved yeast mixture to flour mixture; work with hands until a moist dough forms. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours, or overnight. | 3. Divide dough into eight pieces. Dust rolling pin and work surfaces with powdered sugar. Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll out dough to about 1/8 inch thickness (slightly thinner than pie dough, more like noodle dough). | 4. Cut dough into a circle approximately 8 inches in diameter. (You may want to use a stainless steel bowl and just press out a circle). Refrigerate dough circle. Continue rolling and cutting remaining dough, refrigerating circles as you go. Re-roll leftover dough pieces and cut into circles. | 5. Cut each circle of dough into 16 triangular pieces or wedges. | 6. For filling: Beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add sugar; beat until stiff. Fold in pecans and vanilla. | 7. Spread 1/2 teaspoon filling on each triangle of dough; roll up, beginning with largest end. Place roll, small end down, on greased cookie sheet. | 8. Bake in a 350 degrees F oven 10 to 12 minutes, or until slightly browned on bottom. Immediately transfer to racks to cool. | 9. Sift powdered sugar over cooled cookies. Store in airtight container. Yield: About 10 dozen cookies. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
active yeast	1/4	ounce		6.3042	0.0	1.4025	0.0354
water	3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
flour	4	cups		2313.12	506.4216	37.604	8.9744
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1 1/4	cups	softened	1710.0	78.57	53.43	144.0
egg yolk	3			164.22	1.8309	8.0886	13.5354
cream	1/2	cup	sour	227.7	5.3245	2.806	22.2525
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
sugar			powdered	-	-	-	-
egg white	3			51.48	0.7227	10.790999999999999	0.1683
sugar	1	cup	granulated	319.8	60.008	10.01	4.992
pecan	1/2	cup	chopped	143.1733	26.831999999999997	2.9467	3.016
vanilla extract	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
sugar			powdered	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.