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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse)

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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) are traditional Danish butter cookies made with chopped almonds.

Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in a glass bowl.

Every tin of Danish Butter Cookies has Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in it but homemade ones taste so much better.

My mother used to make these cookies every Christmas using a special star-shaped disc on her meat mincer. She’d wind the handle and out would come little strips of dough that she would curl round to form a wreath shape.

I can’t tell you how long I have wanted to make these cookies for but not having a traditional meat mincer had always been my stumbling block. Last year I saw that Oxo made a Cookie Press and it was only available in the US at that point but I knew that this would be the ideal contraption for me to make my mum’s Vanilla Wreaths!

Imagine my delight then when I found out that the Oxo Good Grips Cookie Press was now available in the UK – finally, I could make these cookies that had been evaded me for so long!

Oxo GoodGrips Cookie Press

My daughter and I experimented with a few of the different shaped discs that came with the cookie press and some shapes were more successful than others. I think the heart shapes were the easiest but the wreath shapes did pretty well too.

Making the cookies was as simple as pushing a plunger and the press was really robust, steady, and comfortable to use. I think we put the press through its paces as it probably wasn’t ideal to use finely chopped almonds in the dough.

However, with a few mishaps (which just got scooped back into the bowl of dough) we made 84 very professional-looking cookies.

Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in a glass bowl.

I can’t wait for Christmas so that I can use the snowflake and tree shaped discs (12 different shaped discs in total). I love that the discs come with their own little storage case as so often you buy a new gadget and you wonder how you’re ever going to find the bits and pieces that go with it.

Cleaning the Cookie Press was a doddle as both ends unscrew for a quick wash in soapy water some parts are dishwasher safe but why bother if you’re washing plunger anyway!)

Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) raw cookies on baking sheet.

The Oxo Good Grips Cookie Press comes with a handy instruction booklet with a few recipes in it but I think many cookie recipes would be suitable to put in this press.

I’m not a great fan of rolling out and re-rolling cookie dough as it becomes so soft and difficult to handle in the end – this cookie press takes away the fiddle, saves time, and keeps your kitchen counter clean.

This is a gadget I’m going to use a lot in the future! It has an RRP of £25 and is currently available from Lakeland.

Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) on cooling racks.
We had great fun trying out the different shapes!

So I hope you’ll join me in enjoying a nice cup of tea and some Danish Vanilla Wreaths on Saturday (Eurovision Song Contest) and let’s hope for a fair contest this year!

If I’ve whet your appetite for cookies here are some more Scandinavian and British cookie recipes:

Competition

I was so impressed with the Cookie Press that I asked Oxo if I could give a couple away to my readers, so if you’d like to be in with a chance of winning one please go to the rafflecopter at the bottom of this post and tell me: What type of cookie dough you would use in the cookie press first?

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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in a glass bowl. Aerial view.

As these Danish Vanilla Wreaths are made from scratch I am entering it into Laura at Must Bake Cakes Biscuit Barrel Challenge where the theme is favourites, so these fit the bill! Plus I’m entering The Spice Trail where the theme is vanilla which is run by Vanesther of Bangers & Mash and being hosted this month by Solange at Pebble Soup.

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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in a glass bowl. Aerial view. Pinterest image.

NB: Thank you to Oxo for providing the Cookie Press and prizes. I was not paid and all opinions are my own.

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Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanilla Kranse)

A traditional Danish vanilla and almond butter cookie, crispy and delicious!
Course Snack, teatime
Cuisine Danish
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes
Servings 84 cookies
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 250 g Plain flour
  • ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  • ½ Vanilla pod split and seeds scraped out with a knife
  • 50 g Almonds chopped very finely (almost but not quite ground)
  • 200 g Slightly salted butter I use Lurpak of course!
  • 125 g Granulated sugar
  • ½ Egg lightly whisked

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 200⁰C.
  • Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and add the chopped almonds and seeds from the vanilla pod.
  • Chop the butter into the dry ingredients and then rub in with your fingers until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
  • Mix in the sugar and egg and then knead to form a dough.
  • Place the dough in cookie press and press out wreath shapes onto ungreased baking trays (or any shape you wish).
  • If you don’t have a cookie press chill the dough for 30 minutes then take small amounts of dough, roll into a sausages and form small ring shapes. Or if you have a traditional meat mincer with a star shaped nozzle use this to form small lengths of dough that you then curl round to form a ring. Place ring shapes on baking trays.
  • Bake for 6 – 8 minutes (turning the tray half way for an even bake).
  • Makes 84 biscuits.

Notes

If you have a traditional meat grinder then use the small star shaped plate attachment!

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  74. maria

    Hello, thanks for sharing the recipe, I can’t wait to try it 🙂 I am also desperately looking for noozles (like the ones used for a sac a poche) which are compatible with the OXO cookie press.. can anyone help me, please?

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  113. nicola

    I would make the danish ones about i love them, i only allow myself to buy them once a year ad they are so more-ish i am gonna try this recipe out this afternoon

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  150. solange

    Thank you so much Camilla for entering this fab biscuits in The Spice Trail. You have inspired me to give the cookie press another go though my first few attempts were disastrous.

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  208. Miss. Lucinda Fountain

    Thanks for the scrummy cookie giveaway!

    I would use a mixture of white and milk chocolate dough for the cookie mixture.

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  213. Angela Cole

    I think I’d try chocolate cookie dough first. I remember having one of these when I was small, and haven’t seen them for years! Fingers crossed to win one for the small people 🙂

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  216. Joanna Carter

    Found a recipe for salted caramel shortbread the other day so maybe i’d try and make those 😀

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  219. Julie

    My Grandmother, Tule made hers with ammonium carbonate and coconut. The ammonium carbonate is 1/4 tsp and available from King Authur Flour. Makes Danish cookies ultra crispy. I make them plus 4 other Danish butter cookies every Christmas, my tribute to Grandma Tule. Your cookie press looks way easier than mine. I’ll have to go shopping. Thx.

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    • Camilla

      Glad to be of help:-) I have a few Danish biscuit recipes using coconut but I’m not a fan of the dessicated form so leave those ones be.

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  225. Javelin Warrior

    I have one of the vintage cast aluminum cork-screw cookie presses from like the 1950’s – but I’ve honestly never used it! I should give it a try because the shapes are so much more delicate those those possible with cookie cutters. Plus, there’s none of the rolling 😉

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  231. Helen Humphries

    I think a simple vanilla recipe with some white choc chips. I have always wanted to make Lavender cookies for some reason so this would be an incentive. 🙂

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  236. Avril Luke

    I’d probably use almond/vanilla recipe first too, and try some plain vanilla, peppermint, coconut, cinnamon and chai variations – oo making me want some with my cuppa right now!

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    • Camilla

      Thanks Deena, would you beleive I went to the biscuit tin last night and my husband had finished them!! Oh well, an excuse to make some more I suppose!

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  245. Jane Willis

    I’d make chocolate cookies. I still couldn’t open the Rafflecopter on this page, despite refreshing several times, but with Ctrl-Click I got it to open in a new tab, which might help anyone else having problems. Rafflecopter seems to be doing that on a few blogs today

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  246. Laura

    I have a different brand version of this but it doesn’t seem to perform as well sadly. I love the look of your biscuits though and I can totally see why they would be a favourite of yours =) as soon as I get back tonight I’ll be entering your giveaway!

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    • Camilla

      I bought a really cheap looking thing in Aldi and I could see it was rubbish so took it back without even attempting to use it. So happy to finally have the Rolls Royce cookie press:-)

      Reply

  258. tamalyn roberts

    thanks for the receipe, i have recently aquired a kitchenaid so am making lots of fab receipes, these are next on my list

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  260. Jillian

    I bought one of these in January and I absolutely love it. It’s so easy to use and the results are fantastic. I have only used the recipes in the booklet so far and they are excellent.

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  261. olivia Kirby

    This looks fab!! I love the OXO products. There’s no rafflecopter there when I lick on link for me though

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