Viennese Crescents
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
4 dozen
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb unsalted butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup almonds or 1 cup walnuts, blanched and ground
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2⁄3 cup powdered sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Beat the butter on medium speed of mixer until lightened in color and creamy.
- Sift 3/4 cup powdered sugar over the butter and beat until well combined.
- Stir in vanilla and nuts.
- Graduallly sift flour over the top while stirring.
- Knead until well blended.
- Pull off generous 1-tablespoon pieces of doug, roll with your hands into a short rope and shape into crescents.
- NOTE: If the dough is soft and difficult to handle, refrigerate until slightly firm.
- Space 1 1/4 inches apart on greased cookie sheets.
- Bake 1 sheet at a time until the crescents are tinged with brown and slightly darker at the edges, 13 to 16 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway through baking for even browning.
- Remove the sheet to a cooling rack and let stand until the cookies firm slightly.
- Transfer the cookies to racks and cool completely. Sift 2/3 cup of powdered sugar over cookies (entire batch) until evenly coated.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
SweetSueAl
Newport News, VA
I live in southeast Virginia and am an executive secretary for the Army. I love to cook and love food. I have a picky, picky 8-yr old, but he is a true blue chocoholic and budding cook! I have two beautiful granddaughters who visit often. I am teaching them to cook too.
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