The idea for this recipe book was born in 2008 in Vienna, when I first starting baking more than just the three standard kinds of Christmas cookies.
Each following autumn I was working on this book, but it took until 2016 till I managed to get both the recipes and the photos just right and like I wanted them.
Since 2020 the recipes are now also available as a web site.
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Cut a vanilla bean open along the full length, and scrape all the seeds (a blackish paste) out. Rub the seeds and the rest of the bean into the sugar, and keep it in a glass jar.
After a few weeks, when the bean is well dried, it can be grated and used for another portion of vanilla sugar.