kipfel

plural kipfels

1. A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.

   Bake the kipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven.

   1880, C. J. Peterson, Peterson's Magazine, volumes 77–78, page 314

   2 more examples

   The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and a kipfel’.

   2003, Brigitte Hamann, edited by Hans Mommsen, The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918–1945, Hitler and Vienna: The Truth about his Formative Years, page 35

   From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken, kipfel, or nut rolls.

   2006, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, page 167