Vanillekipferl - Vanilla Crescents Recipe
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Flavors of Germany
Total time: more than 2 hours
Preheat oven at 200° C (400° F)
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Waiting time: 2 hours
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Keep for several weeks in an airtight tin
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
Vanillekipferl, or vanilla crescents - even though their origin is certainly Austrian, no German household would be without this tradition.
Prepare the vanilla sugar a day ahead by mixing the icing sugar with the vanilla pods or the vanilla powder. Place in a glass jar and close tightly. The icing sugar will take on the flavour of the vanilla.
Ingredients
For about 30 crescents
Dough
- 60 g (2 oz.) ground almonds
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) cold butter
- 40 g (6 1/2 tbsp.) icing sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- The pulp scraped from 2 vanilla beans
- 330 ml (2 1/3 cups) flour
- A pinch of salt
Finishing
- 100-150 g (1 to 1 1/2 cups) icing sugar
- vanilla powder
Method
- Brown the ground almonds in a hot skillet and allow to cool.
- Quickly knead the butter, icing sugar, egg yolk, vanilla pulp, flour, almonds and salt into a smooth dough. Let the dough rest in a cool place for 2 hours.
- Form the dough into about 30 crescents and place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 200°C / 400° F oven for about 10 minutes.
- Roll the still-warm crescents in the vanilla icing sugar. Store the crescents in a cookie tin, each layered separated by parchment paper.
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