Serbian Shortcrust Pastry

Serbian Pastry Kiflice

Makes 80 Shortcrust Pastry Kiflice

Ingredients:

1 cup (250 ml) beer
1 cup sunflower oil
4 cups cake flour
1 cup flour
1 vanilla sugar
jam or thick marmalade, for the filling
icing sugar

Directions:

1. Whisk together flour and vanilla sugar. Add beer and oil, stir with a wooden spoon, then kneed the dough by hands. A dough should be easy to work with, it shouldn't be sticky, but soft and fat.
2. Divide the dough into 10 balls, about 120-125 g each. Flatten it by your hands, then roll out to 20 cm diameter circle using rolling pin. Cut into 8 triangles, place 1/3 tsp of jam onto each one. Fold. Reffer to this link for folding technique (thanks Palachinka!).
3. Bake in the oven preheated to 180-200°C for about 18-20 minutes, or until dough starts to get golden. They should not get golden brown, but keep light gold color instead. While still hot, roll baked kiflice into icing sugar, thoroughly. The dough itself has no sweeteners at all, so roll kiflice into sugar well. Once cooled, store in an airtight container.