Polish Butter Pretzel Cookies are soft and buttery, not overly sweet. They are the kind of cookie that everyone loves. Hard boiled egg yolk cookies may sound strange but these traditional Polish cookies deserve a place in your kitchen.
Back when my son was in grade school, he had to do a cultural project for school. Since my husband's father is Polish, my then nine-year-old son decided to find out more about Poland. This included researching information on my favorite thing--food.
Most of the children in my son's class decided to make some kind of cultural dish and my son picked Polish cookies. In our research, we found several cookies which included hard boiled eggs as an ingredient. While this was all new to us, this pretzel-shaped boiled egg yolk cookies recipe we came up with didn't disappoint.
Ingredients Needed for Polish Cookies
- Butter – use softened, room temperature salted butter
- Flour – regular all-purpose flour works best
- Egg Yolks – remove the yolks from three hard boilded and mash finely
- Confectioners Sugar – sometimes called icing sugar
- Egg – beat a whole, room temperature egg well
- Colored Sugar or Sprinkles – Mix and match the sprinkles to match any holiday or occassion
How to Make Pretzel Butter Cookies
- Combine the butter and sugar then mix in the egg yolk and powdered sugar until well combined.
- The dough is the refrigerated for at least an hour.
- Roll walnut sized chunks of dough and twisted like a pretzel.
- Add colored sprinkles or sugar and bake.
We enjoyed making these together, and boy do I love seeing photos of my son helping me bake when he was younger (even though he doesn't...lol). My son was so proud of his cookies. He was ecstatic when all his classmates loved them too.
More Holiday Cookie Recipes
- Soft Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
- Christmas Pinwheel Cookies from Swirls of Flavor
- Strawberry Sandwich Cookies from Bowl Me Over
- Little Monster Cookie Bites
- Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
This is a wonderful recipe to make with kids and I added it to my holiday cookie collection years ago. Since then it has become a favorite.
If you like these Polish pretzel cookies, please leave a 5-star rating below.
RECIPE
Polish Pretzel Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3 cups flour
- 3 large cooked egg yolks finely mashed
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 egg beaten well
- colored sugar or sprinkles
Instructions
- In large mixing bowl, cut the butter into the flour until it starts to come together as crumbs.
- Stir in the mashed egg yolks and confectioners sugar, mixing well.
- Gather the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least one hour or longer.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Take walnut-sized pieces of dough and roll into a rope. Form into a pretzel shape and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Brush the cookies with the beaten egg and sprinkle with colored sugar or sprinkles.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool for 10 minutes on a cookie rack.
Notes
Nutrition
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Dining Alone says
Those are so adorable!
Angela says
Your son is a cutie!
The Japanese Redneck says
He looks like he's about to run away with the whole dish!
Jennifurla says
ahh what a cutie, great recipe too
Curt says
Awesome cookies, and it's so great when our kids make us proud!
Lisa Huff @ Snappy Gourmet says
Adorable!!
Shulie says
Oh cutest pretzel cookies!! Just adorable!
Diane {Created by Diane} says
so cute, I LOVE pretzel shaped cookies 🙂
Katrina says
Love these! And I love that they use cooked egg yolk--I always have some yolks to use up.
Debbie says
Love the shape of the cookies and they look so delicious with sprinkles!
Donna says
ooooo...I love the combo of tradition and ADORABLE-NESS! 🙂 Too cute! I'm sure they will be a hit!
That Girl says
Things are certainly coming together - my Polish grandfather used to love butter cookies (the pretzel shaped ones were my favorite)
Mari @ Mari's Cakes says
I would love to try these cookie. They look very nice. You have an awesome boy.
Have a great weekend 🙂
Anonymous says
Great looking cookies and your son is so cute! I bet his father is extremely handsome!!!
teresa says
so cute, they look yummy too!
Ciao Chow Linda says
Such a nice project to have with your son. The cookies remind me somewhat of Italian taralli.
Nicole Gamble says
This is a great idea! I so appreciate this site. This is the recipe I was looking for.
Pretty. Good. Food. says
So cute! Gonna have to give the recipe a try 🙂
annie says
how do you cook the egg yolk
jerseygirl says
You can boil them and just the remove the yolk from the center.
Nevaeh says
What do you mean by cooked egg yolk
lisa says
You boil eggs, peel them and then used the cooked yolk. You can save the white part for another use.
Nevaeh says
And how does it stay together there is really no liquid But butter And it's not really a dough