Vanillekipferl (vanilla Cookies)

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 vanilla bean
• 100 g almonds, ground
• 300 g flour
• 2 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• 1 dash salt
• 1/4 lemon, zest of
• 200 g unsalted butter
• 100 g caster sugar
• 4 tablespoons vanilla sugar

Recipe

• 1 half the vanilla bean lenghtwise and scrap out the vanilla pulp. grate lemon to get the peel.
• 2 sieve flour an put into food processor. add vanilla pulp, grounded almonds, egg yolks, sugar, salt, lemon peel.
• 3 cut cold butter into pieces and add to flour mixture. mix in food processor until dough has formed. don't overmix.
• 4 take dough out of food processor and knead once or twice to form the dough.
• 5 wrap into clinge film and cool in the fridge for at least one hour. you can also leave it in the fridge over night.
• 6 preheat oven (180 c). grease a baking tray.
• 7 take dough out of the fridge. take a small portion of dough and form a roll of about 1 cm in diameter. cut this roll into pieces of 6 cm.
• 8 shape these little rolls to make "half moons" or "horseshoes" (kipferl).
• 9 bake cookies for about 15 minutes until light golden.
• 10 meanwhile mix mix caster sugar and vanilla sugar.
• 11 take cookies out of oven and let cool on rack. while still warm dust them with the vanilla-caster-sugar mixture.
• 12 keep them in an airtight container.
• 13 note: time to make does not include cooling time. baking time is given for one tray. custom yield is a guess.
• 14 note on dusting: you can try other spices here. if you like cinnamon add some instead of vanilla. or what is about cardamom or coriander. for a very different treat you could add cacoa and a bit of chili to it.