No Fail Recipe: Perfect Christmas Cookies- Classic Vanillekipferl

Christmas Cookies- Classic Vanillekipferl. Vanillekipferl are small, crescent-shaped cookies with a heavy dusting of vanilla sugar which gives them their typical flavor. The little croissant shaped cookies are a real classic German Christmas cookie and. Probably every German grandmother makes Vanillekipferl at Christmas time.

Yet, if you would add an egg, the dough wouldn't break that easily and hold together better. (You would have to adjust the flour quantity) The almond flour in this recipe helps the cookies to rise and it's a great substitute for eggs. Vanillekipferl or Vanilla Crescent Cookies are buttery, nutty, melt-in-your-mouth German cookies that are rich, made with ground nuts and covered with fine vanilla sugar. They are crescent shaped biscuits with origin in Austria,widely baked also in Germany at christmas time. You can have Christmas Cookies- Classic Vanillekipferl using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Christmas Cookies- Classic Vanillekipferl

1. It's of All purpose flour (Weizenmehl).
2. Prepare of Baking Powder (Dr. Oetker Original Backin).
3. It's of Sugar.
4. It's of Vanilla Sugar (See ref: ).
5. It's of Egg yolks (Size: M, Medium sized Eggs).
6. You need of butter Margarine Soft or.
7. You need of ground Almonds (Dr. Oetker gemahlene Mandeln).
8. Prepare of Sugar Powdered.
9. It's of Vanilla Sugar (Dr. Oetker Vanillin Zucker).

Please see references and the sites that were helpful which I have noted. Christmas without Vanillekipferl is practically unthinkable! Vanillekipferl owe their melt-in-your-mouth texture to the high butter content and the absence of egg. They're a shortbread cookie made with the addition of nuts and a generous dusting of vanilla sugar, which you can either buy ready made or easily make it yourself (see further below).

Christmas Cookies- Classic Vanillekipferl instructions

1. Preparation Prepare the baking tray with baking paper. Preheat the oven - approx. 180 deg. celsius (top and bottom heat).
2. DoughMix flour and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Add sugar, vanilla sugar, eggyolks, butter and ground almonds and mix it with a mixer (dough hook), first at low speed then till the highest speed..
3. Knead the dough on a lighly floured surface to a smooth dough.Place the dough covered in plastic wrap in 30 minutes in fridge so as to make it firm..
4. Make pencil thin rolls and cut it in 4- 5 cm long pieces. Roll the ends thinner then the rest of the roll and place it in baking tray (See video below). Tip: Make sure the baking tray is not hot when placing the dough..
5. SprinkleMix powdered sugar with vanilla sugar and sprinkle some of it immediately on the hot kipferl. Cool the cookies and then sprinkle the rest of it..
6. ReferencesVanillekipferl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VanillekipferlVanilla Sugar http://germanfood.about.com/od/baking/r/vanillasugar.htmWatch Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKTUOnRpODUOriginal Recipe http://www.oetker.de/rezepte/r/klassische-vanillekipferl.html.
7. If you have any doubts during the preparation, please do write your doubts on the page. I tried this recipe with half the quantity. Do try it and let me know how it turned out..

The Christmas Eve meal in Austria often includes fried carp because traditionally Christmas Eve was a day of fasting from meat. Roast apples and braised cabbage are other dishes that may be found on the dinner table, along with Christmas cookies and often a special Christmas cake. Vanillekipferl: Vanilla Crescent Vanillekipferl are all-time favourite, traditional German Christmas cookies. Test my Almond Crescents recipe and you'll agree, it is an easy German cookie recipe To be honest, the Kipferl originate from Vienna, Austria. However, the delicious sickle-shaped cookies have been baked in Germany for Christmas for a long time.