Cookie Craze
The holiday cookie spread at foreign exchange student Jennifer Zinz’s host home this year. Jenny brought a little piece of her home to Texas making her family’s traditional Vanillekipferl cookies.
January 14, 2022
German cookies are a must try this holiday season. A nice warm pastry can take away all the leftover stress of the past semester, and foreign exchange student junior Jennifer Zinz has the perfect sweet treat to get the job done. Vanillekipferl are German vanilla cookies rolled in sugar and twisted into the shape of a U.
Jenny’s family makes the cookies every year around Christmas time. Usually her mom or grandmother are in the kitchen, but Jenny tried her hand at baking.
“I was helping them since I was 6, but last year I did it on my own,” Jenny said. “My grandma helped a little bit, but it’s not hard.”
To make Jenny’s traditional cookies follow this recipe: