Yummy German Vanilla Christmas Biscuits

Dear friends,

since it's Christmas and you can't have Christmas without biscuits I have decided to post my favourite recipe here...Chelsea, if you're reading this, they are the ones you like so much.

***Vanillekipferl***

Put
200g plain flour
1 pinch of salt
125g almond meal
150g butter (not melted)
1 egg yoke
75g sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar* (see note down the bottom) in a bowl and knead with your hand until it is all mixed together and is quite firm. Wrap in aluminium foil and leave in the fridge for one hour.

After one hour, get the dough out of the frigde. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, 175 fan forced, and shape little crescents with the dough, approx. 3cm long. Place on oven tray and bake for 13 minutes. While they are baking, take about 30g of icing sugar and another packet of vanilla sugar* (see not below) and mix together in a little bowl. When the vanilla biscuits have a golden colour, take them out of the oven and wait 5 minutes until they cool down a little (still sitting on the oven tray). Then take one at a time and dip the top into the icing sugar vanilla mixture and sit them on kitchen towel to cool down completely. ENJOY!!!

*This is a German product and you can buy it in the supermarket in Australia (baking goods section). However, if you would like to use something a bit more familiar I suggest you buy whole vanilla beans (2), half them and get out the yummy stuff in the middle. You can substitute one vanilla bean with a packet of vanilla sugar. The vanilla sugar comes in little 8g sachets, about 5 in a packet, and they look yellow. GOOD LOOK!