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Vanilla Wreath Cookies

Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 100

Crispy, buttery-sweet vanilla wreath cookies with real vanilla flavor - a classic Christmas cookie that melts in your mouth and belongs on any cookie platter. Perfect for both coffee breaks and Christmas indulgence.

Vanilla Wreath Cookies

Ingredients

  • 60 g almonds
  • 250 g all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baker's ammonia
  • 125 g sugar
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 200 g softened butter
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  1. Blanch the almonds and grind them into fine almond flour using a mini chopper.
  2. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and mix them with a little sugar.
  3. Combine flour, baker's ammonia, sugar, almond flour, and vanilla sugar.
  4. Crumble the butter into the flour mixture and combine the dough with the egg.
  5. Chill the dough for 2 hours.
  6. Pipe the dough using a star nozzle in a piping bag into wreath shapes.
  7. Bake the vanilla wreath cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at 200°C (conventional oven) for 8 - 10 minutes.
  8. Once the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin.

Vanilla Wreath Cookies

Cake and sweetsSeasonal & Festive
Vanilla Wreath Cookies

Crispy, buttery-sweet vanilla wreath cookies with real vanilla flavor - a classic Christmas cookie that melts in your mouth and belongs on any cookie platter. Perfect for both coffee breaks and Christmas indulgence.

Posted on 11/26/2025

Servings

100

Total time

30 minutes

Servings

100

Total time

30 minutes

Ingredients

•
60 g almonds
•
250 g all-purpose flour
•
½ tsp baker's ammonia
•
125 g sugar
•
1 vanilla bean
•
200 g softened butter
•
1 egg

Instructions

1

Blanch the almonds and grind them into fine almond flour using a mini chopper.

2

Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and mix them with a little sugar.

3

Combine flour, baker's ammonia, sugar, almond flour, and vanilla sugar.

4

Crumble the butter into the flour mixture and combine the dough with the egg.

5

Chill the dough for 2 hours.

6

Pipe the dough using a star nozzle in a piping bag into wreath shapes.

7

Bake the vanilla wreath cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at 200°C (conventional oven) for 8 - 10 minutes.

8

Once the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin.


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