Almond Crescents

Ingredients

Dough

• 300 g flour (2 cups)
• 100 g ground almonds (1 cup)
• 70 g sugar (1/3 cup)
• 9 g oetker vanilla sugar (1 pkg)
• 250 g cold butter (1 1/4 cups)

Decoration

• 150 g sifted icing sugar (1 cup)
• 9 g oetker vanilla sugar (1 pkg)

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 325°F.

2. 2

   Grease a cookie sheet.

3. 3

   Blend flour, almonds, sugar and vanilla sugar together on a pastry board.

4. 4

   Cut the cold butter into small pieces over the dry ingredients.

5. 5

   Quickly work all the ingredients together into a smooth dough.

6. 6

   Shape the dough into pencil sized rolls.

7. 7

   Cut the rolled dough into 2 inch pieces.

8. 8

   Place the dough on the prepared cookie sheet and bend into crescent shapes.

9. 9

   Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the cookies are light golden.

10. 10

    Roll the warm cookies into a mixture of icing sugar and vanilla sugar.