Vanilla Pretzels
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List of Ingredients
VANILLEBREZELN
(Vanilla Pretzels)
1 cup Butter
3/4 cup Fine, quick-dissolving granulated sugar
2 Tbsp. Vanilla sugar (see below)
1 Egg
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 Egg yolk, beaten with 1 Tbsp. milk
Chopped, blanched almonds
Sugar
Sugar icing (optional, see below)
Cream butter with sugar and Vanilla Sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in egg. Add flour gradually, stirring well between additions. Mix until dough is smoothly blended. Chill 3 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough into long thin rolls and cut in 3 inch lengths. Twist into pretzels. Arrange on lightly greased baking sheet. Brush pretzels with egg yolk/milk mixture. Sprinkle with almonds and sugar if you want to use them. Bake about 12 minutes, or until pretzels are done. If you have not used almond-sugar topping, cooled pretzels can be covered with icing, or they can be left plain.
Vanilla sugar can be bought in small packages, or it can be made easily by oneself. Just put a good amount of sugar into a jar with good and tight lid and add one vanilla bean. Cut to length if needed. Let stand for about two weeks and you have vanilla sugar. You can add more plain sugar as you use the vanilla sugar. Refrigeration is neither needed nor desired. The vanilla bean is good as long as it is fragrant, then put in a new one.
Sugar icing: Cook one cup of fine granulated sugar with 1/2 cup cold water until mixture spins a thread. Spread on hot cookies, etc. Makes about 24 pieces
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