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Vanilice

Name: Vanilice
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 30
Cuisine: Serbia
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 80g Walnuts; 80g Sugar; 1 Egg; A pinch Lemon zest; A pinch Vanilla Extract; 100g (apricot) Jam; 50g Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 30

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Crumbly walnut cookies sandwiched with jam and dusted with powdered sugar — a Serbian Christmas sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vanilice are small cookies essential at Serbian Christmas and slava. Walnut dough is cut into small rounds and baked, then pairs are sandwiched with jam and dusted generously with vanilla-scented powdered sugar. Every family has its own recipe, and big batches are baked and stored in tins before holidays.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Serbian kitchen before Christmas, grandmother and the children sandwich little round cookies with jam and roll them in powdered sugar.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 30)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 150g
Walnuts 80g
Sugar 80g
Egg 1
Lemon zest A pinch
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Jam 100g (apricot)
Powdered sugar 50g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the walnuts.
Cream the room-temperature butter and sugar, then add the egg, lemon zest, and vanilla.
Add the flour and walnuts, bring together, and rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Roll out 5mm thick, cut with a 3cm round cutter, and bake at 180°C for 10–12 minutes.
Once cool, sandwich pairs with jam and roll in powdered sugar mixed with a little vanilla.

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