German Vanillekipferl is a classic pastry that we bake for Christmas in Germany. Today, I would love to share with you traditional family recipe, that we had been using for decades!
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Recipe
German Vanillekipferl
- 300 g flour
- 125 g sugar
- 8 g vanilla sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 125 g ground almonds
- 250 g butter
- icing sugar
- Place flour in a large flat bowl. Make a whole with your hand in the middle and place there sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolks. Mix all ingredients well.
- Cut butter into small pieces.
- Add butter and almonds to the mixture. Mix all ingredients well.
- Now your dough is ready! Let it rest in the fridge for 30min.
- Roll the dough into 2cm thick rolls. Cut the rolls into slices and form little crescents.
- Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
- Sprinkle them with icing sugar when still warm.
- Let them cool down on a rack before serving.
I have mentioned this before—I love Christmastime in Germany! I love the Christmas markets, the mulled wine, and all the fantastic dishes and sweets!
As quickly as I fell in love with potato cakes and Flammkuchen, I fell in love with German Christmas Cookies. Today, I am giving you the best Vanillekipferl recipe I know.
Vanillekipferl are well known in Germany and Austria(where they originated from), Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The main ingredients are ground almonds and, of course, vanilla:)
Two years ago, I had the opportunity to learn how to bake them with my husband’s sister, Katharina. She invited me to German Christmas baking, and I was inquisitive about how the cookies would turn out. As much as I love cooking – this much I fear baking. But under her guidance, our cookies turned out to be delicious! From then on, I have been confident about baking Christmas cookies independently. Christmas baking is essential to German culture; I am glad I have learnt it from the best! The recipe below is the recipe I use for my traditional Christmas Vanillekipferl. I hope you will enjoy it!
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