Xmas Cooking: Vanille (a) Kipferl

For all those who want to enjoy a little Austrian Christ­mas atmo­sphere at home, here is the one  recipes for Vanilla crescents:
Ingredients:
200 gram of margarine (no salted butter please(
100 gram ground almonds
200 gram plain flour
50 gram white sugar
2 egg yolks
vanilla sugar for topping the Kipferl


For the amount of cookies and dough shown in this picture i used 4 time the above amount,
and it took 2 people about 2+ hours to prepare and than bake them.

Quickly mix all the ingredi­ents to a short-crust dough and leave it in a cool place for one hour.
Roll out the dough to a thick­ness of about 1 cm before cut­ting into small pieces meas­ur­ing about 2 cen­ti­meters and form­ing crescent-shaped cook­ies.

Place the cook­ies on an bak­ing tray with baking paper and bake at a mod­er­ate tem­per­at­ure (180°C) for about twenty minutes or until they turn a light brown color.
Straight after removing them from the oven sprinkle them with vanilla sugar.

Let them cool down and enjoy.
They can be kept 2-3 weeks easy, but normally wont survive that long, at least not with my wife :-)

Tip: if you cant get your hands on vanilla sugar, use a vanilla stick and normal white sugar, add the stick to the sugar and leave that in a glass for at least 2 weeks... here you go, vanilla sugar self made.....

This cookies are also a great self made gift !