It’s been a while since I’ve written about Vanillekipferln. For anyone who has not taken my word for how important Vanillekipferln are to the Viennese at Christmas let me quote a statistic from the Kurier: 71% of Austrians think of Vanillekipferln when they think of Christmas cookies. In Vienna I suspect that percentage is even higher. (I don’t have a sense that Vanillekipferln are quite as central to Christmas in Tirol and Vorarlberg, for example.) 😉
In any case, Merry Christmas to all my readers who celebrate Christmas!
ecbinvienna 
I had a dear old Vennese friend who had to flee Vienna as a 9-year-old in 1938. She has since died, but even she, as a Jewish Viennese, made Vanillenkipferln every year at Christmas time (and at other times, too)
Thank you for sharing your memory. It made me think of Eva Ibbotson and her story and this scene from one of her books (“The Morning Gift”): https://ecbinvienna.com/2012/12/02/for-the-first-sunday-in-advent-vanillekipferln/