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vanillekipferl and a giveaway!
Aren’t you glad you came to my blog today??? This is my post for the Baker’s Dozen Ultimate Cookie Exchange! Yea!!!! Some other bloggers and I are sharing cookie recipes today, and all of them can be seen by clicking here. Be sure to check them out, since many of them will be having giveaways—including me!
Let’s get to that first, shall we??? One lucky reader will not have to lift a finger to enjoy some scrumptious cookies for the next couple of months. Platine Cookies of Los Angeles has offered to award one very lucky reader a three month subscription to the Cookie of the Month Club (I am seriously tempted to enter the giveaway under an alias).
The Chef and owner, Jamie Cantor (her name is Jamie, so she’s already cool, as far as I’m concerned) started Platine Cookies awhile back, and her cookies and bakery have been mentioned in People Magazine, Vogue, LA newspapers, and all over the web.
Her cookies are all natural, and perfectly wonderful, so if you want to win some, click over to PlatineCookies.com, decide which cookies look the most delicious to you, and tell us about them in the comments section. Only one entry per person please. I will choose a random winner on Monday morning, December 14.
If you don’t win, that’s totally fine, since I will have their link over there in the sidebar for whenever you get a craving and need to order some.
In the meantime, if you’d like to whip something up on your own, try out my recipe for the cookies in the picture. They were pleasantly addictive.
vanillekipferl
To be honest, I have no idea how to pronounce these. You’d think, since I have some German heritage, I might actually know a tiny bit of German, but I don’t.
I decided to make these back in the summer when I was rereading my favorite book, The Morning Gift
They are traditionally Christmas cookies (or at least they are according to the World Wide Web), and so I thought I’d try them out now.
vanillekipferl
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
2 sticks (224g) unsalted room temperature butter
2 egg yolks
2/3 cup superfine sugar (or granulated is fine)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup almond flour or almond meal (or 1 cup almonds ground in a food processor)
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (200 degrees celsius). Line 3-4 cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a food processor fitted with the blade attachment, pulse together sugar and vanilla bean seeds. Pour vanilla sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
2. Reattach the bowl of the food processor and add in butter, egg yolks, superfine sugar, vanilla, salt, and almond flour. Turn the processor on until the ingredients come together in a soft, thick paste. Add in flour, and pulse until the dough starts to become cohesive.
3. Turn dough out onto a floured board and knead a time or two to ensure all ingredients are evenly dispersed. Form dough into a thick cylinder. Use a knife to cut a small amount of dough off, and form into a ball, about the size of a cat’s eye marble. Roll the dough between your hands to form a 3-4 inch rope, tapered on both ends. Curve it into a crescent shape and place on the prepared pan. Repeat with the remaining cookies, and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes before baking.
4. Bake for 10-15 minutes, rotating halfway through baking time. Cookies are done when the edges just begin to brown. Allow to rest in the pan for 5 minutes to set, then one at a time, and very carefully, roll in vanilla sugar. Remove to a cooling rack. Best enjoyed after 24 hours.
Chocolate chip! It’s a classic and so good!
I think the signature cookies look scrumptious! Visually, it seems like they would have the perfect texture…crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I’m not even a huge fan of raisins and I would love to take a big bite.
definitely chocolate galore! Your cookies look amazing Jaime!
the signature cookies. oatmeal and chocolate plus other stuff – can’t go wrong w/ that combination.
Those snickerdoodles look really good, I love the addition of lemon… Thanks for your great blog, I have really enjoyed following you!
The Chocolate Galore would be every woman’s dream! With gourmet chocolate and walnuts. What’s not to like!!
I love me a good rugelach!!
I would love some of those snickerdoodle cookies! They were on my Mom’s cookie list when I was a kid. So much fun to make, and even more fun to eat
I think brownies would make winter go faster, or be way more enjoyable.
First off the cookies look fabulous. I’m a huge chocolate fan so I’d go with chocolate galore. Also, I have a food blog and am wanting to incorporate fitness this next year. I was wondering how you divided your blog into different sections and if you wouldn’t mind sharing or telling me where I could find info on how to do it. Thanks
Cranberry chocolate chunk! It is a staple on my holiday gift plate each year and would love to try Platine Cookie’s version!
Mmm, I’m a plain old chocolate chip kind of person!
Those blondies strike a chord close to my heart because that is the first recipe that I mastered in the kitchen at the ripe old age of 13. I didn’t mess up too badly on them, either. And ever since that time I go weak in the knees whenever someone mentions “blondies”.
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thanks for this giveaway!
chocolate galore!
although all the cookies look gorgeous.
BROWNIES!!!!! Yum!
The Chocolate Galore looks delicious!
ah, I am definitely a brownie fan. those look great.
The signature cookie looked pretty darn good!
I’m a big push-over for a well made snickerdoodle…it goes so well with a cuppa tea.
chocolate gingersnaps!
Chocolate gingersnaps! Might even be inspired to look up a recipe and make my own shortly.
The chocolate brownies look yummy! I can never get enough chocolate – especially if it’s good chocolate.
Chocolate gingersnaps sounds real good!
Yours here also sound really good. Nice to have found your blog, it’s beautiful.
I am a chocoholic. So my favorite is definitely the Chocolate Galore.
The Holiday Candy Craze cookies sound disgustingly delightful!
Chocolate Galore – enough said.
Rugelach!!! but is that really a cookie?? i mean technically?
The snickerdoodles sound awesome!
I think the Chocolate Gingersnaps look delicious!!!! What a cute cookie site! : )
Cranberry Chocolate Chunk. I bet they are heavenly!
All the cookies look good, but I’m a brownie girl from way back. Love ‘em! That’s what I’d choose.
I’m a sucker for a good rugelach!
Chocolate Galore is the winner
How to pick just one?? I’d probably need to taste them all to be certain
but the Cranberry Chocolate Chunk is getting my vote! Thanks!!
Jamie’s cookes look fantastic! I would love to sink my teeth into the Chocolate Galore cookies. Yummy!
I’ve been craving brownies for weeks now so the “Our Best Brownies” are pretty drool inducing!
Thank you so much for the giveaway!
The best brownies sound like a tasty treat. I wish I would have had some to make it through finals!
Those chocolate gingersnaps look really good! Thanks for hosting this.
The snickerdoodle cookies look divine! I would choose those!
chocolate gingersnaps…wow, two great things in one cookie!
Beautiful website, btw.
If I win, I don’t have to choose just one kind of cookie? How wonderful! I would love to try a gourmet cookie of any kind. Thank you!
Chocolate Galore gets my vote.
who could choose?! Classic Chocolate Chip looks like the way to go for now…until later!
[...] mentioned The Morning Gift was my favorite book a couple of weeks ago when I posted the vanillekipferl recipe. Though this isn’t a Christmas book, it fills me with such happiness that I am sharing [...]
Chocolate! Glorious Chocolate!!!! Honestly, need I say more about the chocolate galore cookies? I must say, about one week per month (teehee) I crave something just like this! If I were the winner of the cookie of the month giveaway, I promise to promote world peace, starting with my household.
PS The vanilla cookies look great, too…reminds me of my trip to Europe last year, which included a stop in Germany. I may have to try these for Christmas!
Gorgeous post. I love your blog.
“Vanillekipferl” is pronounced mostly how it is spelled. “Vanille” is a lot like our English vanille but with an “ee” sound: “vaNEEla.”
“Kipferl” is pronounced as it is spelled, but “ferl” would rhyme with how a British person says “pearl.” You know, more like “puhl,” omitting the r. So “Kipfuhl.”
Put them together and you have:
“VaNEElakipfuhl.” Hope that helps!