What are kiffles?

Answer 1

Kiffles are an Eastern European pastry of dough rolled paper thin by hand and filled with assorted fillings. They are pronounced "kif-fulls". In the U.S., you can find them in parts of Pennsylvania. Kiffles are similar to Polish Kolacky or Czech Kolache (small, sweet yeast buns with fruit filling poked into its side) but use a different dough.

Kiffle dough has cream cheese and butter in it. They're filled with apricot filling, lekvar (prune butter), poppyseed, or a walnut filling (walnuts and sugar), then they're rolled up into a crescent shape, and baked. While they're still a bit warm, the kiffles are sprinkled with powdered sugar.

See article below for more details and a recipe.