Austria‘s most popular Christmas cookies. My family‘s recipe in comments. Vanillekipferl rank as Austria’s favorite melt-in-your-mouth Christmas cookies year after year. There are strong opinions on what kind of nuts should be used. It’s claimed that almonds are the original. But renowned places like Demel in Vienna or Zauner in Bad Ischl use hazelnuts. Gerstner in Vienna goes with walnuts. And so does my family. I have this theory that access to available nuts determined what was used back in t