Vaniljekranse – Danish Christmas butter biscuits
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This fantastic vaniljekranse recipe from Sally Abé shows what a snip it is to whip up these delicious Danish Christmas biscuits. Tie the biscuits with some ribbon to make a brilliant edible gift.
Ingredients
- 200g of butter
- 150g of sugar, plus extra for dusting
- 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
- 1 free-range egg
- 75g of ground almonds
- 240g of plain flour
Method
1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4
2
Cream together the butter, vanilla seeds and sugar then stir in the egg
3
Mix together the ground almonds and flour and mix into the butter and sugar mixture. When thoroughly combined, transfer the mixture to a piping bag with a star nozzle
4
Pipe circles of the dough onto a tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 8–10 minutes until the biscuits are just starting to turn golden brown
5
Leave to cool, sprinkle with caster sugar and serve
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