Six unique recipes for vanilla crescent cookies that you cannot resist!

What happens when you mix flour, ground nuts, butter, sugar and vanilla?

You will receive one of the most traditional Christmas cookies.

A fragile, delicate, and fragrant delicacy that falls apart beautifully in the mouth.

Try our recipes for vanilla rolls in both traditional and non-traditional forms.

You will find yourself falling in love with them all.

The Best Vanilla Crescent Cookies

To intensify the taste, lightly dry-roast the hazelnuts in a pan and remove the skins before grinding them.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cup of cold butter
• 1/2 cup ground walnuts or hazelnuts
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/2 vanilla pod with seeds scraped out

For wrapping

• 1/3 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/2 vanilla pod with seeds scraped out

Method:

1. Combine the flour, salt, cubed butter, icing sugar, nuts, and vanilla seeds in a food processor fitted with the paddle attachment.
2. Mix on medium speed until a crumbly dough forms.
3. Add 1-2 tablespoons of milk if the dough is too crumbly.
4. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling film, and refrigerate it for an hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 338°F and line the trays with baking paper.
6. Roll out the cooled dough into a cylinder about 0.6-0.8 inches
7. Cut the roll into approximately 3.2-inch pieces and shape them into a roll or crescent shape.
8. Bake the vanilla rolls for approximately 12-15 minutes until the edges are golden.
9. In the meantime, scrape out the vanilla pod and mix the seeds with the powdered sugar.
10. Wrap the still-warm candy in their mixture.

Almond Vanilla Rolls

Rolls with nuts are primarily classic, but this recipe will quickly convince you that replacing them with almonds is okay. The candy will be even more delicate and delicious.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup cold butter
• 3/4 cup ground almonds
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• powdered sugar for coating

Method:

1. Cut the cold butter into small pieces.
2. Combine the flour, butter, ground almonds, sugar, vanilla extract, and egg yolk in a medium bowl.
3. Work into a homogeneous dough with your hands and shape it into a ball.
4. Wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the fridge for at least an hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 338°F and line the trays with baking paper
6. Dust a rolling pin or work surface with a small amount of flour and divide the dough into four equal parts.
7. Keep a quarter of the dough outside and put the rest in the fridge. You should only take out a small amount of dough at a time and leave the rest in the cold.
8. Knead the dough briefly and then roll it out with your hands until it becomes a long roll about 0.4-0.6 inches thick.
9. If the dough falls apart, knead it briefly and roll it out again.
10. Cut the dough into roughly 3-3.2 inches long pieces and shape them into rolls.
11. Place the rolls on the tray and repeat the process with the other three parts of the dough.
12. Bake until golden, depending on the size of the rolls, approximately 12-15 minutes.
13. Roll the still-warm vanilla rolls in powdered sugar.

Crisp rolls with vanilla and cinnamon

Vanilla and cinnamon are the spices most associated with Christmas. Try their combination in this deliciously delicious cookie.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup ground walnuts or hazelnuts
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

For wrapping

• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)

Method:

1. Beat the butter and icing sugar until fluffy.
2. Add the ground nuts, vanilla extract, and cinnamon, mixing until well combined.
3. At the end, add the sifted flour in parts and work it into a dough.
4. Divide the dough into thirds, wrap it in cling film, and let it rest in the fridge for an hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 347°F.
6. Remove the first part of the dough from the refrigerator.
7. Break off small pieces of dough and shape them into a roll or crescent shape.
8. Place the vanilla rolls on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
9. Repeat with the remaining dough.
10. Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes until the edges are lightly browned.
11. Mix a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, vanilla, and powdered sugar in a small bowl.
12. Roll the still-warm pastry in cinnamon sugar.

Quick Cup Vanilla Rolls

Don’t want to be delayed by weighing ingredients while baking? If so, you will surely enjoy this mug recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 and 1/4 cups plain flour
• 1 cup ground blanched almonds or almond flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• powdered sugar for sprinkling

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Using a hand mixer, beat the powdered sugar and butter in a medium bowl until fluffy.
3. Add vanilla and almond extract and mix well.
4. Add salt and mix thoroughly again.
5. Mix the flour and ground almonds or almond flour into the butter mixture.
6. Knead everything with your hands into a uniform dough.
7. On a lightly floured board, use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm.
8. Using the crescent-shaped cutters, cut out individual pieces of candy.
9. Combine the rest of the dough, roll it out, and repeat until all the dough is used up.
10. Place the tray with baking paper and vanilla rolls in the preheated oven.
11. Bake until golden brown, approximately 12-15 minutes.
12. Lightly sprinkle the still-warm rolls with icing sugar.

Gluten-free vanilla and walnut rolls

If you don’t want to or can’t use regular white flour when baking, don’t worry. Vanilla rolls can be baked without gluten!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup of rice flour
• 1 cup of softened butter
• 3/4 cup of ground walnuts
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

For wrapping

• 2 tbsp of powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 320°F.
2. In a bowl, mix and thoroughly incorporate all the listed ingredients by hand or using a food processor.
3. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight.
4. Remove the dough and divide it into four equal parts the next day.
5. From each part, roll out one long roll approximately 0.4-0.8 inches thick.
6. Subsequently, cut pieces from it with a knife, which then shape into the shape of a roll.
7. Adjust the length of the pieces to the desired size of the rolls.
8. Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake the vanilla rolls until golden brown for approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on their size.
9. Mix the vanilla and powdered sugar and cover the slightly cooled rolls.

Non-traditional vanilla crescent cookies with coconut

Most often, vanilla rolls are, of course, coated in sugar. But why not try this interesting variant with chocolate and coconut?

Ingredients:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 cups ground almonds
• 1 and 1/4 cup softened butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Dutch cocoa or baking cocoa
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

For decoration

• chocolate frosting or melted dark chocolate
• 1-2 tablespoons of powdered sugar
• 3-4 tablespoons of grated coconut

Method:

1. In a bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Stir in the almonds and vanilla.
3. In another bowl, mix the sifted flour, cocoa, and salt.
4. Gradually mix the flour mixture into the cream mixture.
5. Knead into a dough, wrap in cling film, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
6. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
7. Gradually shape the dough into 0.8-inch long rolls, which you then bend into a half-moon shape.
8. Place them on baking sheets lined with paper and bake for 10-12 minutes.
9. Remove the finished vanilla rolls from the oven and let them cool completely.
10. Then, dip the rolls halfway into the chocolate coating or melted chocolate.
11. Let the excess chocolate drip off.
12. Place the cookies on baking paper and sprinkle with coconut.
13. Let it harden.
14. Finally, cover the ends of the rolls with chocolate and coconut and bake them on baking paper. Sprinkle the other part with powdered sugar.

The tradition of baking vanilla rolls

Vanilla rolls have been among the most popular and frequently baked candy types for decades, especially in Europe. But you may not know that their history dates back to the second half of the 17th century, and their origin is related to the victory of the Austrian Empire over the Ottoman Empire in 1683. Originally, they were not Christmas pastries but “celebratory” cookies for coffee or tea.

The shape of the roll was derived from the symbol of the Ottoman Empire – the crescent moon. The first recipes for vanilla rolls contained only flour, ground almonds, butter, vanilla, and sugar. Vanilla rolls soon became popular in all parts of the Habsburg Empire.

Various local adaptations of the original recipe were also made. For example, walnuts were often used instead of almonds. Variants enriched with egg yolks, which make the dough easier to work with, are also available.