Homemade French Alsatian Christmas cookies with the taste of vanilla. These cookies can already be made in the beginning of November and kept in a tin box with baking paper before being served around Christmas. However, it is unlikely that these small delicious treats will last that long!
Mix the flour, sugar, almond flour, vanilla sugar and icing sugar in a bowl. Add the margarine and mix it all well to a cookie dough.
Spread some flour on a table and roll out the dough and make cookies with the help of a cookie form. Repeat until you don’t have any dough left. Place the cookies on a baking paper.
Place the cookies in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes. Take them out and let them cool down.
This is one of the classic Alsatian Christmas cookies called sand bredele. They are named sand bredele because it feels like soft sand when you prepare the dough. It is common to change the taste by adding vanilla, rum, orange, citron, cinnamon or ginger, and you will find them in many different shapes as well.
The French sand cookie originate from the Sablé-sur-Sarthe. To make the cookies you need to mix cold butter together with the flour and sugar, and the result resemble of sand. This Alsatian bredeles are one version of the sand cookies, but with a taste of peanut butter. You can use whatever baking from as you prefer.
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