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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.
101 Responses to “vanillekipferl and a giveaway!”
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I think the signature cookies look awesome!
Hi there!
I’ve been reading your blog for about 6 months now and I just wanted to tell you how much I love it. Also, your pumpkin torte with dreamy brown sugar frosting saved my thanksgiving.
The Cranberry Chocolate Chunk on the Plantine website sound amazing, I love mixing fruit and chocolate.
Keep up the good work
the snickerdoodle. it’s always the snickerdoodle.
meanwhile, these little crescents look great, no proper pronunciation necessary.
Though not a cookie- they do offer the best brownies on their website. Even reading about them nearly had me running to the baked goods!
Their chocolate gingersnap cookie looks the best to me.
I think it’s a toss up between the signature cookies and the chocolate galore. Both look delicious.
The chocolate galore looks rich and amazing. I love your photo of these adorable cookies, too. How fabulous that a book inspired you to bake something!
Signature cookie!
Signature cookie! :0
I choose Snickerdoodles! Yum!
The brownies! Yum….
They are absolutely beautiful. What a perfect Christmas cookie… something I’ve never done!
The snickerdoodles look yummy! But I would be lying if I didn’t say the couture cookies look amazingly delicious! I love decorated sugar cookies!
i’d have to say the signature cookies look pretty delicious. and i love your blog! it always inspires me to go out and make beautiful, sophisticated things to share with family and friends!
chocolate galore! well, they all look so yummmmmmmy. I didn’t even know there was such thing a cookie of the month clubs. That’s almost too good to be true.
xx
You have such a beautiful blog! I’m so glad that the 13 cookies site drove me here ! As for the giveaway … oh, snickerdoodles look tempting right now … I’ve been craving vanilla and cinnamon, like your vanillekipferl!
Well, that was easy – Signature cookies for the win!
Cranberry chocolate chunk please! Yum!
The cranberry chocolate chip. I love my cranberries (at present I have three different cranberry sauces in my fridge)
I’m a sucker for snickerdoodles and I’m sure theirs are quite tasty!
We make these for Christmas every year. They are delicious! Yours look lovely.
Mmmm… the signature cookies look delicious!
I think I’d like the Signature cookie and the snickerdoodles. I love cookies; they are my dessert of choice, but I have a hard time at portion control!
Your cookies are beautiful!
I’d probably go with the Signature cookies, but all of them make my mouth water!!
Anne
These look delicious and beautiful. What a great contribution!
Seriously, how could anyone go past those chocolate galores, the name alone is mouth watering? Of course, the chocolate brownies look pretty good too, and Im forever searching for the good chocolate chip cookie……….
The Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies! How can you possibly go wrong with sweet and tart together.
wow! those cookies look rather tasty! thanks for the chance.
chocolate gingerbread please!
I certainly have a lot of baking to do now!! What wonderful recipes. Enjoy the season….I know I will.
I’m always going to choose snickerdoodles!
Jaime, I’m so proud of how things are taking off for you!
What delicious cookies Plantine has! I would love to try the September Traditional Rugelach just because I have no clue what it is. But I’m sure it’s great and I love trying new things!
I am going to make your cookies for my son’s teacher gifts. They look so delicious! As for the giveaway, I would love to eat the chocolate gingersnaps. They look great! thanks for this giveaway!
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They have chocolate gingersnap cookies! Marvelous! Although I think I’d prefer your vanille kipferls!
The signature cookies look delicious – I love oats in my cookies!
I think the chocolate galore is divine! Awesome.
I also think that the signature cookies look divine.
Cranberry chocolate chunk would be my favorite cookie.
Yum! they all look good, but I am intrigued by the chocolate gingersnaps!
chocolate gingersnap, who knew? Sounds delicious.
I’d like the chocolate ginger! Your vanilla cookies look great, too!
The Chocolate Galore cookies look amazing!
I think I’m going to have to make your vanillekipferl cookies, they look really good!
I would love to try their signature cookies. Thanks for a chance at the giveaway.
Snickerdoodles look great!
chocolate ginger snaps!
Gotta be the yummy-looking Signature Cookies! After all, they’re signature for a reason, right?
Simply gorgeous!
Chocolate Gingersnaps, for sure. I am salivating just imagining what they taste like.
the signature cookie looks delicious!
I’d love just some plain ol’ Chocolate Chip. You can’t beat it!