Cookies

Vanilla rings

Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 250 g plain flour9 oz plain flour
  • 50 g potato starch (potato flour)2 oz potato starch (potato flour)
  • 125 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)4½ oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 190 g butter6½ oz butter
  • ½–1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

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. Mix the flour, potato starch and icing sugar. Rub in the butter, then add the egg and vanilla extract and knead to a smooth dough; use half to one egg, depending on how dry the dough is.
  3. 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.
  4. Bake at 200°C for 7–10 minutes on a high shelf in the oven.Bake at 400 °F for 7–10 minutes on a high shelf in the oven.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Vanilluhringir
250gr. hveiti - 50gr. kartöflumjöl 125gr. flórsykur - 190gr. smjör 1/2-1 egg - 2 tsk. Vanilludr.
200°c í 7-10 min. ofarlega í ofninum.