The cookies with the biggest heart you can imagine are here from Serbia – Little Vanilla Cookies. Are you ready for JOY of the best cookies?

Hello my dear readers,

“Sometimes small things can do big things.”

To get the full meaning of the quote above, you will need to taste the most famous cookies from Serbia called(how ironic)…

Little Vanilla Cookies.

ABOUT LITTLE VANILLA COOKIES

Little Vanilla Cookies are little cookies with the biggest heart you can imagine.

The heart full of nutty flavor that is seriously addicting.

So, if you are ready we can start making the best cookies from Serbia – Little Vanilla Cookies

For this cookies you will need to buy the following ingredients.

SHOPPING LIST

• Walnuts
• Shortening
• Butter
• Flour (unbleached)
• Egg
• Pure vanilla extract
• Apricot jam
• Icing sugar
• Regular sugar

ACTION TIME

Making the best cookies from Serbia “little cookies with the biggest heart” or

LITTLE VANILLA COOKIES (VANILICE)

Ingredients

1/8 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/4 cup vegetable shortening (Crisco)

1/3 white sugar

1 TBSP brown sugar

1 egg yolk

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups flour (all purpose and unbleached)

1 1/4 cups walnuts (finely grounded)

Filling:

Apricot Jam

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Icing sugar for magic dusting

Instructions for Vanilla Cookies

In a large mixing bowl, add shortening and butter and beat until combined.

Add both sugars and continue to beat until creamy.

Then add egg yolk, pure vanilla extract and mix until combined.

Your final step is to add ground walnuts and flour and mix in a low speed until all ingredients

are happy together and you can see joyful and consistent dough almost ready for fridge.

Divide in 3, shape each into a cute, small ball, wrap into plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 hours. (overnight)

After the dough has rested…

Preheat oven to 325F.

Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick.

Using a 1 inch cookie cutter, cut out the cookies and place them on your baking sheet.

Bake at 325 for about 11 minutes. (until they start to golden around the edges)

Remove them from the oven and let them cool.

Filling for the best Serbian Vanilla Cookies

Once the cookies are cooled you can start filling them.

Take one cookie at the time, spread 1/2 tsp apricot jam on it, top with another cookie.

Repeat until all your cookies are used.

Dust the top of the cookies with a white magic called icing sugar.

Say thank you and enjoy the cookies…sorry not yet.

Store the best little vanilla cookies in an airtight container on the counter.

Don’t eat them for 24 hours.

Let the magic happen.

After 24 hours:

Eat little magic vanilla cookies and say:

Thank you to the Universe and 5starcookies.com

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Little Vanilla Cookies

Yield: 3 people

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 11 minutes

Total Time: 21 minutes

Little Vanilla Cookies or Vanilice - the best vanilla cookies from Serbia.

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Ingredients

• 1/8 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup vegetable shortening (Crisco)
• 1/3 white sugar
• 1 TBSP brown sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups flour (all purpose and unbleached)
• 1 1/4 cups walnuts (finely grounded)
• Apricot Jam
• Icing sugar for magic dusting

Instructions

1. In a large mixing bowl, add shortening and butter and beat until combined.
2. Add both sugars and continue to beat until creamy.
3. Then add egg yolk, pure vanilla extract and mix until combined.
4. Your final step is to add ground walnuts and flour and mix in a low speed until all ingredients
5. are happy together and you can see joyful and consistent dough almost ready for fridge.
6. Divide in 3, shape each into a cute, small ball, wrap into plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 hours. (overnight)
7. After the dough has rested...
8. Preheat oven to 325F.
9. Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick.
10. Using a 1 inch cookie cutter, cut out the cookies and place them on your baking sheet.
11. Bake at 325 for about 11 minutes. (until they start to golden around the edges)
12. Remove them from the oven and let them cool.
13. Filling
14. Once the cookies are cooled you can start filling them.
15. Take one cookie at the time, spread 1/2 tsp apricot jam on it, top with another cookie.
16. Repeat until all your cookies are used.
17. Dust the top of the cookies with a white magic called icing sugar.
18. Say thank you and enjoy the cookies...sorry not yet.
19. Store the best little vanilla cookies in an airtight container on the counter.
20. Don't eat them for 24 hours.
21. Let the magic happen.
22. After 24 hours:
23. Enjoy and share.
24. Don't forget to say thank you to the Universe and 5starcookies.com           

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 3 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

OK, let’s enjoy the best cookies from Serbia – Little Vanilla Cookies

Time to eat our first cookie or I like to say: Cookies #1

Keep going … they are so little so don’t feel guilty

You love it, don’t you?

DECORATION

This step is optional.

How to decorate Little vanilla cookies?

-use walnuts, chocolate, apricot jam….

IMPORTANT NOTICE

-Be sure to use finely ground walnuts. (food processor)

-Refrigerate cookie dough for at least 3 hours before baking

-Preheat oven to 325 F

-Use organic egg yolk

-Use all purpose flour UNBLEACHED

-If you don’t have 1 inch cookie cutter use the small glass or lid of spice jar (something small)

-Use silicone baking mats to bake cookies

-If you don’t like apricot jam use raspberry or strawberry jam (or the one you like)

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Have you?

Of course you had and since you know exactly what you want 5starcookies.com is here for you.

And for today, our dream is building (making) the best empire….check the link below.

https://www.5starcookies.com/2018/10/13/empire-cookies-build-your-dream-and-share/

How about chocolate chip cookies….

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies in Chocolate Bath

These chocolate chip cookies just have the right amount of butter and shortening.

You can make them in no time. The recipe is super easy and super fast.

For the full recipe click the link below

https://www.5starcookies.com/2019/03/25/soft-chocolate-chip-cookies-in-chocolate-bath/

Option 3

Coffee Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Cookies with freshly grounded coffee beans, chocolate and walnuts. Cookies that will enter your life and make you feel special…

For the full recipe, please check the link below.

https://www.5starcookies.com/2016/04/17/coffee-chocolate-walnut-cookies/

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If you are interested and you want to learn more about Serbian cookies, please visit Pinterest.

https://www.pinterest.ca/buba4280/serbian-cookies/?lp=true

Famous celebrities of Serbian decent:

Peter Bogdanovic-Director, Stana Katic – Actress, Sasha Alexander – Actress, Karl Malden – Actor,

Milla Jovovich – Actress, Catherine Oxenberg – Actress

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058627011/

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