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
- 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.
- Split the vanilla pod, scrape out the seeds and mix them into the icing sugar.
- Mix in all the dry ingredients, rub in the cold butter, then add the egg. Knead to a smooth dough.
- 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.
- 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

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.