Bake sale prep - vanilla cookies recipe, anyone?

I am in full bake sale prep mode and just made a ton of vanilla cookies (with only a pinch of salt this time, haha).

They turned out real good, so here's the recipe, kids!
Tried to figure it out in both gram and oz, so pretty much anyone should be able to try them out. =)

Vanilla Christmas Cookies
(called "Vanille Kipferl" over here)

















200 g / 6.65 oz margarine (I use soy margarine) at room temperature

70 g / 2.35 oz sugar (brown if you like)

100 g / 3.35 oz ground hazelnuts

250 g / 8.35 oz all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour, or better yet, if you have it, fresh vanilla = content of 1 bean

a pinch of salt (ha!)

1 tablespoon soy milk (whatever, really, can be rice or oat milk, or even water won't make a difference, I think)

confectioner's sugar
vanilla scented/flavoured sugar

Mix the margarine and the sugar until thouroughly mixed and fluffy.
Add the hazelnuts, flour, salt and soy milk and disperse with your hands.

Some recipes ask you to let the dough cool down in the fridge for some time now, I don't think this is necessary, though? I don't do it for the vanilla cookies.

Now roll dough balls (appr. the size of a walnut) between your palms and form into kidney shape and place on a tray with baking paper. You can put them pretty close to each other as they hardly spread.
Preheat the oven as you roll kidneys, to 180 Celsius / 360 Fahrenheit.
Bake the cookies for appr. 16-18 minutes.

As soon as you take them out the oven, roll them in some vanilla scented sugar and sift confectioner's sugar on top.
Now eat some warm... yum. ;)

Speaking of cookies, I got this book in the mail today (from my favourite online book store, the bookdepository)...

















...and hope I'll find some time next week to try out the one or other recipe... I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. :)

I seriously hope we'll have a successful fundraiser tomorrow!