Delicious Mailänderli cookies according to Sprüngli’s traditional recipe – for sure success:

Ingredients for about 100-120 Mailänderli:

360g butter
180g sugar
90g egg yolk
25g lemon zest
Pinch of salt
3g vanilla flavouring
600g white flour

How to make:

Mix the butter and sugar until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Then add the egg yolks, lemon zest, a pinch of salt and vanilla flavouring and mix well. Add the flour and knead into an even dough. Cover the dough and chill for 1 hour.

Roll out the dough between baking paper to an even thickness of 1 cm. Preheat the oven to 220 °C and bake the Mailänderli on the middle shelf for about 5 to 6 minutes. Leave to cool on a cooling rack.