VANILLA AND ALMOND KIPFERL BISCUITS

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Ricetta dei biscotti di natale kipferli
Ricetta dei biscotti di natale kipferli

These that I propose to you today are Vanilla kipferl, a Christmas classic in all Germanic countries (in all its variations with dried fruit, such as those with walnuts) whose shape is usually a crescent, or a horn (kipferl actually means little horn). The recipe always comes from Pinella, the biscuit magician.
After this introduction, know that I have never made them in the shape of a crescent, nor a horn (even if my brother gave me the German molds). I like them in the shape of stars or even better snowflakes… because they are so white and delicate…

Ingredients:

  • 250 g of 00 flour
  • 1 egg yolk
  • the scrapings of the inside of a vanilla pod
  • 80 g of icing sugar (vanilla if you like)
  • 100 g of peeled and finely chopped almonds
  • 200 g of soft butter
  • Icing sugar and vanilla sugar to cover them at the end.

Chop the almonds in the blender and scrape out the inside of a vanilla pod (it’s a very black, grainy mess: you’ll want to cut the pod lengthwise and then scrape it all out with a knife blade).

Impastate tutti gli ingredienti insieme (eccezion fatta per gli zuccheri a velo per la copertura) fino ad ottenere un impasto morbido ed elastico con cui formerete una palla che avvolgerete in un panno e lascerete riposare per 30 minuti circa.

A questo punto stendete la pasta, su un piano infarinato, con uno spessore di 1 cm circa e ritagliate i biscotti che più vi piacciono.

Se invece volete fare le mezzelune tradizionali ricavate con la pasta dei rotoli spessi 1 cm e tagliateli ogni 5 cm circa e piegate la pasta a forma di cornetto.

Informate i biscotti a 180°C per 15 minuti circa. Non devono rosarsi, ma rimanere bianchi.

Quando sono ancora caldi cospargeteli con abbondante zucchero a velo misto a zucchero a velo vanigliato.

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