Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) are traditional Danish butter cookies made with chopped almonds.
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!
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.
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!)
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.
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!
More Cookie Recipes
If I’ve whet your appetite for cookies here are some more Scandinavian and British cookie recipes:
- Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze
- Finsk Brød(Finnish Shortbread)
- Hallon Cookies from Scandinavian Christmas by Trine Hahnemann
- Chocolate Orange Love Heart Biscuits
- Crispy Clementine Cookies
- Chocolate Melting Moments
- Cinnamon Star Cookies
- Icelandic Christmas Cookies
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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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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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)
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.
Amy Fidler
These look great x
Paul Wilson
I love those biscuit pooper things.
Camilla
LOL Paul!
Heather Haigh
I love how pretty the biscuits come out.
Jane Davies
Love these, would be ideal for a picnic ! 🙂
Ursula Hunt
Lovely biscuits with a nce cup of tea
Paul Wilson
I like making cookies, it’s very relaxing.
Dee
Chocolate, of course. x
claire griffiths
chocolate chip
Denise Booth
sugar cookie dough <3
Natalie Crossan
Chocolate and cherry 🙂 x
taja mckenzie
white chocolate chip
Rachel B
Peanut Butter
Chloe Metcalf
Chocolate Chip
ashley smith
chocolate chip yummy 🙂
Alexandra Blue
peanut butter
DAWN ADAMS
Shortbread
Rachel Craig
Probably Chocolate Chip :- My Mum’s favourite.
Dawn Totton
Yummy chocolate chip.
Susan Carruthers
Chocolate Cookies
Kirsteen Mackay
Chocolate chip
Pat Stubbs
Coffee and walnut
Laura Carroll
Double choc chip!
Alisa Moore
Double Chocolate
Caroline Anne Bellamy
Can’t go wrong with chocolate chip 🙂
shirley evans
i would try chocolate
Martina Pichova
Vanilla
Jayne K
I’d give it to my daughter so that she can make herself some gluten free cookies
Keith Hunt
chocolate chip
Chris Williams
almond dough would be scrummy
Jennifer Bailey
Ginger and coconut cookies
michelle tearall
chocolate whirls
Tamsin Dean
CANNOT GO WRONG WTIH CHOC CHIP
Zoe Bryan
Chocolate chip for my kids 😀
Hannah Ingham
Chocolate Chip :))
fiona waterworth
chocolate chip
Janine Atkin
vanilla cookies. yummmmmmyyyyyy
Melanie McNair
Has to be chocolate chip
Angie Hoggett
peanut butter cookies
Lesley Cohen Wright
would love to try the danish vanilla wreaths
Chris Minko
Danish Vanilla
katherine b
Vanilla or cinnamon dough x
lynn neal
Chocolate
iain maciver
chocolate chip
Harry Sutton
Vanilla cookies
Allie Campbell
Chocolate chip
Linda gale
I’d use it to make vanilla butterflies
Sue Brett
I have a really nice recipe for oatey biscuits
Pam Lawrence
For me, almond cookie dough, but I think hubby would insist upon peanut butter cookies first!
Marianne Pierce-Saunderson
The Danish Vanilla cookies – they sound delicious.
John Taggart
Chocolate Chip
Eleanor Powell
vanilla Danish
Jo-Anne holton
Vanilla cookies
Lydia Graham
It’s got to be Vanilla, my favourite flavour. I am going to be trying your recipe soon.
Kiran Parry
Chocolate chip
jmsrowlands
White chocolate chip
jmsrowlands
White Chocolate
Robyn Logan Clarke
I would love to try your recipe for Danish Vanilla Wreaths
sarah robertson
Gooey Toffee
Deborah Bird
Shortbread, my fave!
Jane Middleton
Vanilla cookies
chirag P
Chocolate Chip
ali thorpe
Almond biscuits.
Alison
Vanilla cookies
Lani Nash
Choc chip
Sarahann Tonner
Chocolate Chip
Rachel Gilbey
Chocolate Chip
Jane Robertson
Ginger and Spice Cookie Dough would be lovely.
Sarah Rees
Chocolate chip
Joanna Sawka
Chocolate and Vanilla
Nataliejane
Chocolate chip
Mark Palmer
Chocolate
Taylor J
Vanilla with chocolate chips!
Sammy Sugden
chocolate chip
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?
Emma Davies
Double chocolate
jenna rothen
chocolate chip
Karen R
I’d love to try the Vanilla Kranse 🙂
Diana
Chocolate and Cherry! 🙂
Holly Chandler
Chocolate Chip!!
leanne williams
Lemon biscuits, always been my favourite.
Lisa Sands
Chocolate and Cherry! x
Helen Belton
Peanutbutter cookie dough….am in love with it 🙂
Claire Long
Lemon biscuits, always been my favourite.
Prettyplease26
I’d definitely have to have an attempt at your danish Vanilla Wreaths
Amy Skinner
A chocolate mix for my son
Rosalind Blight
gooey toffee cookie mix
helen booth
Chocolate Chip!
jane greenfield
chocolate chip
REBECCA TOWNSEND
Chocolate chip, yummy
samfernley@happyhomebird
Lemon flavour
foz
Chocolate chip…my fave
Debra E
Chocolate Chip
Amanda Milton
White Chocolate Chip Dough
lorraine stone
Coconut with the heart shaped cutter.
lyn fagan
almond cookies sound and look fantastic would love to win this cookie press
Amy Ripley
chocolate chip
Zoe G
White choc chip, yum
claire fawkner
Chocolate chip
Savo888
Coconut cookies, mmmm
Kayleigh Main
White chocolate chip
EVA
chocolate chip
great idea to cook with kids 🙂
Ane S
Chocolate chip!
IRENE BOLTON
Vanilla Wreath looks and sounds lovely. I would try this in the cookie press.
lucy Jacobs
chocolate chip
Catherine Bailey
A good old vanilla cookie mix – start with the basics!
Barbara Handley
Chocolate chip Bits of chocolate do not seem as naughty to eat.
Ellen Nixon
chocolate chip and orange
jen morgan
chocolate chip good old fav
veronica lee
first time i have been on a site like this, fabulous 🙂 x
Camilla
Thank you so much, do come again:-)
David Funnell
These all look delicious. I would use the heart shaped cutter first. X
Andrea
Chocolate chip.
Sarah Tilley
double choc chip
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
Peter Murray
Would use chocolate chip first!
Laura Robson
Chocolate chip!
Paul Wilson
What a great device.
Corina
Peanut butter and Nutella.
Felicity Kelly
Gingerbread dough, yummy
Dani
chocolate chip
Mel
White chocolate & raspberry
Karen Lloyd
Chocolate orange.
Adele Hill
shortbread
laura jayne bates
chocolate chip yummy
Emma Clements
Chocolate Chip!! Yummy x
Tracy Sinclair
Almond or vanilla.
Rebecca Beesley
chocolate cookie dough
Alison Johnson
Has to be chocolate chip
Elaine Tonberg
Vanilla cookies – mm yum!!
Stephanie Coals
Chocolate chip 🙂
Susan Hall
Peanut butter
Daniela James
Chocolate chip xx
bakingaddict
Vanilla as it’s so versatile and an all time favourite
Pam Hubbard
CHOCOLATE CHIP
julietk
shortbread – nice and easy and delicious
Abigail
chocolate chip – Mmm Mmm
Melinda Kirkland
Mmmmmm chocolate chip
Harry Sutton
Chocolate chip!
ESME MCCRUBB
CHOCOLATE CHIP
Catherine Culmer
white chocolate chips
Alexandra Mercer (Life of mummy)
Vanilla cookie dough
SamFernley@happyhomebird
Chocolate chip – yum!
angela cringle
I love shortbread, great prize
Amy
It’d have to be chocolate chip!
lynn savage
shortbread
Solange
Chocolate chip
Joy Lawson
Choc chip 🙂
Anne Wallwin
I’D TRY SHORTBREAD FIRST
jodie harvey
choco chip 🙂
faye huntington
oh chocolate chip definitely!
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.
Camilla
Thanks Solange, it is trial and error and any errors we just popped back in the press;-)
Lisa Everaert
chocolate chip mmmm.
Lorna MacFadyen
orange choc chip!
Teresa Lee
White chocolate & coconut
Jessica Slater
chocolate chip
Susie Wilkinson
It’s got to be chocolate chip!
Jean Bolsover
Would have to be chocolate chip 🙂
Clare Webb
I would use the chocolate chip one
Debra E
Chocolate chip and added blueberries.
Stephanie Tsang
shortbread
Melody Williams
Mmmm for me it would have to be double choloate chip 🙂
ADEINNE TONNER
Chocolate chip
Paul Witney
Double choc chip
Karen Hurse
chocolate chip
Emma Baker
Chocolate
Lucy Bishop
Peanut butter and white choc chip
Matt Froggatt
Chocolate Chip!
Kat Lucas
I would use shortbread first
Tammy Tudor
mmm chocolate 🙂
angela sandhu
vanilla
Georgina
Double choc chip
julie laing
shortbread
Jill Webb
lemon for me
IZZY
VANILLA X
makila wheatley
funfetti
Victoria
shortbread
Emma Nixon
Chocolate
Lorraine Tinsley
Double choc chip
Tracy Newton
The heart5987 6432624
Tracy Hanley
shortbread
Vanesther - Bangers & Mash
These look absolutely delicious. A great entry for this month’s vanilla themed Spice Trail challenge – thanks for entering!
Camilla
Thank you:-)
Lucy Smith
Chocolate orange!!
Pauline Hill
chocolate
jennifer thorpe
chocolate chip
Tink Rhonda Lee Mse
Chocolate definitely!
Chris Davies
Has to be chocolate chip for me
Eirian
Vanilla for me!
Louise A
Choc chip cookies 🙂 and for sheer indulgence served with hot chocolate!
Christine Dodd
Chocolate chip with cherries
sarah birkett
anything with chocolate, what about salted chocolate maybe
Jamie-Lee
My sugar cookie recipe!
Kay
Salted chocolate!
Allan Smith
Has to be chocolate 😀
Katherine S
Without a doubt, chocolate 😀
Hazel Christopher
Definitely shortbread, yum!
Holly Smith
Coconut
Louise A
Almond cookies most likely!
Elizabeth (Liz) Briggs
Chocolate chip dough
Caroline H
Peanut butter and banana would be fab.
Natasha M
ooo it would have to be a chocolate chip one first 🙂
abigail edkins
chocolate chip
Richard Randall
Orange
Ashleigh Allan
chocolate chip
lynn mitchell
anything that has almonds in it yum yum
Rebecca Hall
Vegan chocolate and banana cookies for me! Yum yum
Caroline Clarke
I would try your recipe first then whatever looks good from the OXO book.
Jessica Wilde
Chocolate chip cookies… although in plain dough, not the double chocolate ones…. 😀
Maxine
Ooh, would have to make some peanut butter cookies – my favourite!
Miss. Lucinda Fountain
Thanks for the scrummy cookie giveaway!
I would use a mixture of white and milk chocolate dough for the cookie mixture.
claire woods
shortbread
Katherine L
I’d love to use it for a banana peanut butter cookie!
zoe cross
i would use the chocolate chip YUMMY!
Angela Walton
Apple & Cinnamon
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 🙂
Galina V
White chocolate and vanilla most likely.
Linda spevick
I adore shortbread
Joanna Carter
Found a recipe for salted caramel shortbread the other day so maybe i’d try and make those 😀
winnie
chocolate 🙂
Janet
I would try the shortbread recipe first
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.
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.
Honest Mum
How pretty are they, wow, I am so impressed! That cookie press is so clever as are you! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
Camilla
Aah, thanks Vicki, too kind:-)
Lynsey Buchanan
Coconut
Herbert Appleby
chocolate and nut first
Emma Button
I’d try with a slightly salty double chocolate mix
Jo welsh
A chocolate chip dough
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 😉
Camilla
Oh Mark you have to give it go, that sounds awesome! And yes it’s so much easier than the faff of rolling out:-)
Keep Calm and Fanny On
I’ve just made some Salted Liqourice Shortbread cookies, so I’d give that a go!
Camilla
Oh they sound awesome:-)
Sarah Davies
I’d try some with a touch of cinnamon
frances hopkins
Chocolate!!
Hazel Rea
Glutenfree almond cookies – due to family allergies.
Choclette
Ooh your cookies look fabulous Camilla. I think I NEED a press like this. I guess I would have to make chocolate cookies first 😉
Camilla
Yes I want to try chocolate next:-)
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. 🙂
Roger Bufton
Love to try Slow Cooked Beef & Vegetable Casserole.
Roger Bufton
Cocoanut or Banana or both together.
Sandra M
I love anything lemon flavoured
clair downham
the chocolate chip
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!
melanie stirling
I would make white chocolate chip cookies.
Ursula Hunt
I would use chocolate cookie dough first
Sandra Clarke
Chocolate chip for me.
Deena Kakaya
Goodness Camilla, those Danish treats look so light, pretty and crisp. X
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!
Sally
The heart shaped ones would be great with cherries in the mix.
eva trelfa
the danish ones 🙂
jackie chapman
I would make shortbread, my favourite!
Sarah Maclean
Chocolate Chip
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
Camilla
Rafflecopter is so temperamental, you go in to edit and it throws it! All fixed now.
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!
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:-)
EMMA WALTERS
gingerbread would be fab!
kim neville
I would try out the chocolate chip cookie dough first
Leanne Lunn
Danish Vanilla
Tracy Nixon
I would use chocolate chip cookie dough. Thank you!
Lorna Craig
I’d make the Danish ones
laura banks
probably the chocolate chip
Tracey Peach
I Would try Making Shortbread Cookie Dough Biscuits With The Oxo good Grips Cookie Press
sandra hastings
I would use chocolate chip cookie dough.
kim plant
this is fab great competition thankyou xx
tamalyn roberts
didnt read the question right, i last made this chewy receipe, chocolate chip cookies and we all loved them http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/the-chewy-recipe.html
tamalyn roberts
i would use the butterflies, arent they fab!!
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
olivia Kirby
I would probably make the Danish ones or a mixed spice biscuit.
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.
Camilla
Glad you like it too:-)
olivia Kirby
This looks fab!! I love the OXO products. There’s no rafflecopter there when I lick on link for me though
Camilla
It’s working now:-)