Almond Crescent Cookies
Recipe: #466
October 14, 2011
"This is one of my favourite Christmas cookies from Dr Oetker's Baking is Fun. It's very easy to make and has a wonderful buttery flavour. This recipe will make about 100 cookies."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (9.2 g)
- Calories 45.9
- Total Fat - 2.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.5 g
- Cholesterol - 6.1 mg
- Sodium - 20.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 4.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.2 g
- Sugars - 2.4 g
- Protein - 0.5 g
- Calcium - 3.7 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 325 Fahrenheit and grease a baking sheet or line with parchment paper.
Step 2
Combine icing sugar with 2nd packet of icing sugar and set aside.
Step 3
Blend first four ingredients together in a large bowl.
Step 4
Cut butter into small pieces over flour/almond mixture.
Step 5
Using clean hands, quickly work all ingredients together until you have a smooth dough.
Step 6
Shape dough into pencil-sized ribbons and cut into 2-inch pieces.
Step 7
Place on prepared baking sheet and bend into crescent shapes.
Step 8
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until cookies are a light golden colour.
Step 9
Roll warm cookies in reserved icing sugar/vanilla sugar mixture.
Tips
No special items needed.