Balkan Vanilla Walnut Jam Cookies Vanilice 🍓✨

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Desserts Balkan May 10, 2026 84
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Description

Balkan Vanilla Walnut Jam Cookies, known as Vanilice, are delicate sandwich cookies made with buttery walnut dough, filled with raspberry or apricot jam, and rolled in powdered sugar until they look snowy and festive. They are tender, fragrant, nostalgic, and perfect for holidays, tea tables, cookie boxes, and elegant dessert boards. ✨

Hook ✨

Soft walnut cookies, bright jam, vanilla aroma, and a snowy sugar coat make Vanilice one of the most loved little sweets of the Balkan table. 🍪

Ingredients

Servings: 4 ×1
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  • Cookie dough 🍪
  • Filling and finish 🍓

Preparation

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Total Time

⏱ Prep: 30 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 12 min
🛋 Rest: 2 h 35 min
⏰ Total: 3 h 17 min

Nutritional Value

🔥 Calories: ~145 kcal
💪 Protein: ~2 g
🍞 Carbohydrates: ~17 g
🧈 Fat: ~8 g
🌿 Fiber: ~1 g
🔥 145 kcal 💪 2 g protein 🍞 17 g carbs 🧈 8 g fat 🌾 1 g fiber
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Advice

Bake Vanilice pale, not golden. Their charm is in the soft, short texture that melts after resting with the jam.

Why it works 💡

Ground walnuts make the dough tender and aromatic, powdered sugar keeps the crumb delicate, and the jam slowly softens the cookies from the inside so each bite becomes richer after resting.

Twist 🌶️

Use sour cherry jam instead of raspberry or apricot for a deeper Balkan flavor and a darker, more dramatic filling line.

Status

Snowy, soft, buttery, and filled with bright jam, these Balkan Vanilice bring old-fashioned sweetness to every little bite. 🍓✨

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