Danish vanilla cookies (vaniljekranse)

Vanilla beans · about 80 cookies · 1 hour

The classic Christmas cookie with the seeds of a whole vanilla bean.

Ingredients

• 375 g plain flour
• 250 g sugar
• 250 g cold butter
• 100 g almonds, blanched and finely chopped
• 1 egg
• 1 vanilla bean

Method

1. Mix the flour, sugar, almonds and vanilla seeds.
2. Rub in the butter and bring the dough together with the egg. Rest it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
3. Pipe the dough through a mincer with a star attachment or a piping bag, and shape small rings.
4. Bake at 200 °C for about 8 minutes, until the edges are lightly golden.

Tip: use the whole bean. A scraped vanilla bean still has plenty of flavour. Put it in a jar of sugar, and after a couple of weeks you have your own vanilla sugar.

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