Vanilla Kipferl

One of our many Christmas desserts.

Ingredients
100 g amonds
250 g all purpose flour
150 g butter
100 g sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
icing sugar to decorate

Method

1. Crush almonds as fine as possible.

2. In a bowl, combine the ground almonds and the flour.

3. Rub in the butter.

4. Add the egg, the vanilla, and the sugar and work the mixture with your hands until you obtain a homogeneous dough

5. Shape the dough into a rectangle, about 1 inch thick and place it in the refrigerator for about two hours.

6. After two hours, take the dough out of the refrigerator. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a baking tray with parchment paper.

7. Divide the dough into several parts. Make rolls that are approximately 1 inch thick. Cut the rolls into 1 inch pieces, bend the pieces into the shape of a semicircle and taper the ends.

8. Bake for about 15 minutes until golden.

9. While still warm sprinkle the kipferl with confectioners’ sugar and let them cool down.