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Swedish Dream Cookies

These vanilla cookies are air-light, with a sandy, crisp texture.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Swedish
Keyword: baking, cookie, cookies, sugar, vanilla
Servings: 35 cookies
Calories: 102kcal
Author: Kimberly Salem

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 250 g flour (2 cups)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla powder
  • 1 teaspoon baker's ammonia
  • 114 g butter, room temperature (1 stick/½ cup)
  • 250 g sugar (1 ¼ cup)
  • 100 g canola oil or other neutral-flavored oil (½ cup)
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Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 300°F (150°C/gas mark 2).
  • Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
  • Add the flour, vanilla powder and baker's ammonia to a medium size mixing bowl and whisk to combine. (Fair warning, it smells terrible!) Set this bowl aside.
    adding ammonium carbonate to the dry ingredients
  • Add the butter and sugar to a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer and cream them together until they are fully combined.
    hand mixing the butter and sugar together
  • A little at a time, add the oil to the butter mixture, stirring well after each addition.
    pouring oil into the butter and sugar
  • Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until fully combined.
    pouring in the dry ingredients
  • Using a cookie scoop or a tablespoon, portion the dough out into balls, and then use your hands to roll them into smoother balls.
    hands rolling dough into balls
  • Arrange the cookie dough balls on your baking tray with about 2 inches (5 cm) of space in between them.
    balls of cookie dough on a baking sheet
  • Bake cookies for about 20-24 minutes. Do not open the oven during this time, because the ammonia smell will be strong!
  • The cookies will be done when they no longer smell of ammonia. They should not be brown at all on top. Cool on a cooling rack.
    Swedish dream cookies on a cooling rack
  • These cookies will keep well at room temperature in an airtight container for about a week.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 102kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 9mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 22IU | Calcium: 2mg | Iron: 1mg