My favorite traditional Hungarian Christmas recipe. Dissolve vanilla sugar, 2 tablespoons of honey and half of the butter in warm milk. Cut the ‘kifli’ into rolls and put them in a large baking pan. Heat the oven to 170 C / 350 F and bake the rolls for 8-10 minutes. Pour the sweet milk on the baked ‘kifli’ rolls in a bowl. Mix the ground poppy-seed, sugar and lemon zest together and sprinkle the mixture over the rolls. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 400 F. Brush the baking pan with the rest of the butter and fill it with the poppy-kifli mix. Make as many layers in the pan as you can. Bake it for 20-25 minutes or until the top turns partially brownish. Serve it warm with some extra honey on the top.
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