Buttery viennese whirls

This is a must try recipe! These whirls are melting in your mouth and can be prepared with just a couple of ingredients. My kids literally could not stop eating these! In the end, there was actually a little fight about who gets the last cookie. I had a lot of fun preparing those cookies and seeing, how my family loved them.

These cookies can easily be prepared in a vegan version. These are light, perfect cookies for an afternoon tea or coffee. Let’s get started and let’s get your baking sheets out.

Recipe for 15 buttery viennese whirls

• 125 grams of soft butter / vegan alternative
• 25 grams of powdered sugar
• 25 grams of cornstarch
• 125 grams of flour
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 tsp of bourbon vanilla sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 1.5 to 2 Tbsp of (plantbased) milk
• 60 grams of dark chocolate

Mix the butter with the sugars and the vanilla together until creamy and fully combined. Then add the cornstarch and the flour and the salt. You can mix this with a hand-held mixer or even your hands. I added 1.5 tbsp of milk to make the batter a little thinner, since I wanted to pipe the batter onto the baking sheets. You can now preheat the oven to 170 degrees. There is no need to cool the dough, so you can continue right away.

Pipe the batter onto the baking sheets with a piping bag and a star shaped nozzle. Bake the cookies for 12 -13 minutes, until golden brown. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet, until these have cooled down, completely. The heat from the baking sheet will help to let the cookies get the perfect texture.

Once the cookies have cooled down completely, I dipped them into melted dark chocolate. Melt the dark chocolate over a double boiler or in the microwave for 30-60 seconds. Then you can dip the cookies in there and I highly recommend giving the cookies those extra 20 minutes, until the chocolate has set. Otherwise this could get messy. 🙂 Then store these in an airtight container. These just get better. You could easily eat these for a couple of days, without losing any flavor or texture. But believe me, these will not last long!

Have a wonderful day and let me know, what you think of these.

Love and happiness,

Sue