Almond Crescent Cookies

LifeIsGood's Note:

Another recipe from German Cooking cookbook. These traditional cookies will almost melt in your mouth. To get the proper consistency in these cookies, make sure the almonds are finely ground, not chopped!

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 45 cookies

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup ground almonds
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Spray several cookie sheets with cooking spray.
3. With a mixer, beat the butter with sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add vanilla extract and almond extract, beat until incorporated.
5. Stir in the flour and almonds. Work flour mixture into a firm dough.
6. Working with 1 tablespoon of dough at a time, shape a long in the middle is thicker than both ends. Bend dough log into a crescent shape.
7. Place on greased cookie sheets and repeat until all dough is used.
8. Bake 12-15 minutes or until light brown.
9. Sift powdered sugar into a small shallow bowl.
10. While the cookies are still warm , roll the crescents in the powdered sugar.
11. Cool on racks.

Reviews

[Dreamgoddess]

These were wonderful little morsels of bite sized goodness! My family really enjoyed these, made them yesterday and sadly today, they're already gone. Made for ZWT 7 Count Dracula and his Hot Bites.

[**Jubes**]

Reviewed for ZWT7- Delicious cookies LifeIsGood :D These special treats were easy to make and the cookie dough was good to work with. My family loved these cookies and we will definitely be making them again.

[Chef Kate]

I'm getting cookie crumbs on my keyboard and a fine dusting of 10x over everything. Good cookies! No eggs, no salt, no baking powder or soda---I thought maybe these were going to just crumble away. But no worries---they are almost crunchy on the outside and then lovely and soft within. I made mine a little larger--about one and half ounces of dough in each and had a yield of 23 nice sized crescents. I have to lock these away or give them away before I eat them myself.