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Special-occasion vanilla rings

From
Húsfreyjan
Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 60 g almond flour (finely ground almonds)2 oz almond flour (finely ground almonds)
  • 300 g plain flour11 oz plain flour
  • 150 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)5½ oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 egg, small
  • ½ tsp hjartarsalt (baker's ammonia, ammonium carbonate; use baking powder if you can't get it)
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 225 g butter, cold8 oz butter, cold

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C and line baking sheets with baking paper.Heat the oven to 400 °F and line baking sheets with baking paper.
  2. Split the vanilla pod, scrape out the seeds and mix them into the icing sugar.
  3. Mix in all the dry ingredients, rub in the cold butter, then add the egg. Knead to a smooth dough.
  4. Press the dough through a mincer or cookie press fitted with a star plate, cut the strips into pieces of about 8 cm and shape them into rings. Place on the baking sheets.Press the dough through a mincer or cookie press fitted with a star plate, cut the strips into pieces of about 3 in and shape them into rings. Place on the baking sheets.
  5. Bake at 200°C for about 7–8 minutes, until pale golden.Bake at 400 °F for about 7–8 minutes, until pale golden.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Vanilluhringir spari
(Húsfreyjan)
60gr. möndluhv. - 300gr. hveiti 150 gr. flórsykur - smá salt - 1 lítið egg 1/2 tsk. hjartasalt - 1 vanillustöng 225gr. kalt smjör
Vanillust. skafin og bl. saman við sykurinn svo allt mulið saman + smjör + egg. 200°c í ca. 7-8 min.