Amazing Daisy and her snowflakes
The low pressure area called "Daisy" dipped Berlin into a whole white city today. Amazing! Everyone moves slowly and the usually hectic town almost feels like a slow motion silent movie. All things are covered with snowflakes like a bakery with powdered sugar. The powdered sugar brings me on to my one of my favorite cookie recipies called "snowflakes" or sometimes "vanilla clouds". Let´s call them snowflakes - it´s Daisy´s day today:-). Snowflakes are very simple to prepare and easy to bake, but very nice concerning their flavour and their mellow texture: they nearly melt in your mouth.
Ingredients for snowflakes
250 g creamy butter, 100 g powdered sugar, 2 vanilla beans, 100 g flour, 270 g cornflour.
How to bake snowflakes
All you have to do is to mix powdered sugar and butter together to a very creamy consistence and then add the mush of the bourbon vanilla interiour and the flour mix. Keep the dough cold for a while. Then take it out of the fridge, form rolls and cut slices of a half centimeter of this rolls. Make a little bowl out of each slice, lay it on a baking tray covered with parchment and press the little bowls down to flat with a fork.
Bake the cookies for around 12 minutes at a medium heat.
Snowflakes are cookies not only for wintertime. Their fine taste also improves an afternoon tea in spring or summer time. You can refine snowflakes for these seasons with lemon or lime peel to give them a little bit of freshness.
dolce vita ahoi • mobile minds • monika ebert
