Kringla II

Long-time AllRecipes user, first-time reviewer here. I came to this recipe using the ingredients search bc I had extra sour cream & heavy cream left over in the fridge. This recipe is delicious and I enjoyed trying different ways of forming/piping the cookies. Sharing here in case others will benefit from my experience: 1. Left (in glass travel container): I followed the recipe instructions for mixing the dough, but then followed reviewer recommendations to pipe the cookies out. I ended up making spirals using the "star" shaped tip of a cake decorating kit. 2. Middle (in glass baking dish): I followed original recipe instructions and made the (traditional?) figure 8/infinity sign design. I followed review recommendations and put the dough into the fridge overnight to make it easier to work with the sticky dough. It felt like the ends of figure 8 never seemed to pinch together, but everything evens out in the oven as the dough expands. 3. Right (on baking sheet): I used two alternate designs for the rolled dough -- one spiral (like a cinnamon roll) and one spiraled figure 8 (kinda like a closed letter S). As far as taste, texture & looks are concerned, I prefer the piped design. All the extra flour needed to roll the dough is the first thing you taste when you put the finished cookie in your mouth -- not so when you pipe out the dough. That said, it was really hard to pipe out and my hands got tired quickly with all the hard squeezing.

Loved it! I'm a newbie and these came out perfect my first try. My husband even helped with this. We quickly found that rolling the dough out in our floured hands worked best for us. Like what you did as kid with your play dough. We gave up on the figure 8's promptly because they looked awful. Instead, we rolled the dough out in snakes with our hands the length of our palms and then doing a swirl instead on the baking pan.

My stepdaughter LOVES Kringla & convinced me to make it (I had never even heard of of it). After consulting my mother-in-law I tried this recipe to rave reviews from the girl.