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You can store these in an airtight cookie box and they should last for a couple of weeks. Mine are usually done in 10 minutes, when the bottoms and edges are just starting to turn golden brown. Keep an eye on these in the oven, as baking time can vary a bit oven to oven. They won’t have the classic vaniljekranse wreath shape, but they will still taste delicious! If you don’t have a piping bag, you can instead roll the dough into small balls and flatten them with the back of a fork. It will take a bit of muscle to pipe these as the dough is a bit firm, but if the dough is too hard to get out at all, you can try to warm up the piping bag between your hands, or leave it for 15 minutes at room temperature. The most important thing here is that you must used fully softened butter, otherwise the dough will be too hard to pipe out. If you mess them up you can always add them back to the piping bag until you get a shape you like.
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If you’re really struggling, you can also pipe the dough in a straight line and then form it into a wreath with your hands, though personally I find it easier to pipe them into circles. The trickiest part is piping the dough out into wreaths – it might take a bit of practice to get the hang of it (you can watch how I do it in the video below). This vaniljekranse recipe is incredibly simple. Or you can simply add a few drops of almond extract to the cookie dough.īut personally I think this recipe is perfect as is. If you want more almond flavor, you can use ground almonds instead of almond flour for a more rustic vaniljekranse. The almond flour doesn’t make them taste particularly almond-y, but instead it gives these cookies their wonderful texture. Vaniljekranser, or “vanilla wreaths,” are made with a mixture of all purpose flour and almond flour. You can find all of my Scandinavian Christmas recipes here. Vaniljekranser are very traditional Christmas cookies in both Denmark and Norway, often showing up in Norwegians’ “ Christmas seven.” They’re a bit similar to serinakaker (Norwegian butter cookies that are also popular for Christmas) but they’re crispier and a bit more buttery. They’re incredibly buttery with the perfect hint of vanilla, and I love the crispy texture. In fact these are probably my favorite Scandinavian butter cookies. I know it’s still a while until Christmas, so over the weekend I baked vaniljekranse cookies, which are popular Danish Christmas cookies (also popular in Norway), but they’re also basic enough to bake other times of year as well. This means that I’ve pulled all my wool sweaters out of storage, I’m considering making a fire in my fireplace tonight, and I’m even beginning to think about Christmas baking. Temperatures in Bergen have dropped and I am now fully in autumn mode.