Archive for April 25, 2010

Christmas recipe exactly but it becomes indigestible in April, is that I'm about to introduce in this dreary spring day: they are VanillaKipferl, seen on the blog of sprout http://www.cavolettodibruxelles.it/2007/12/vanillakipferl and immediately made . Their shape bezel and the intoxicating smell of vanilla to give it a sweetly romantic and relaxing. Perfect chew sipping a cup of tea or coffee with friends or let dissolve in mouth magnificence on the couch in the company of your love and your favorite movie.

Makes about 70 cookies:
200g flour
175g soft butter
100g ground almonds
80g sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
vanilla sugar to finish the cookies (to get it just put the granulated sugar in a jar with a vanilla bean)

Procedure:
Mix the almonds, flour, sugar, butter, egg yolks and vanilla extract and mix to form a compact ball. Form two rolls of dough, wrap with plastic wrap and keep in the fridge for a couple of hours. Take back the dough, pick a small piece of dough at a time and modellatelo shaped crescent moon. Arrange the biscuits on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake for 10-15 minutes at 175. Be careful not to brown them, bianchi.Appena You gotta get out of the oven, wait for it to acquire consistency and still almost hot press into granulated sugar in a way that adheres to the surface of the biscuit. Then arrange them on a wire rack and let cool.