Almond Crescents
Ready In: 32 mins
Yields: 45 crescents
Ingredients
- 250 g butter, softened
- 2⁄3 cup icing sugar, plus more for dusting
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup almond meal
- 2 1⁄4 cups self-raising flour
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan.
- Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
- Using an electric mixer, beat butter, icing sugar until light.
- Add egg yolk, vanilla beat until combined.
- Add almond meal, flour and mix on low speed to form dough.
- Shape tablespoon (35g) of mixture into ball and roll on table into small log and turn ends in to have a shape of small crescent.
- Place on trays 3cm apart as they will expand in the oven.
- Bake for 12min. You don't wont too much color on them.
- They will harden up as they cool. So don't try to remove them from tray as they are very fragile at this point.
- Leave them on trays for 5min. and while still warm sift over generously icing sugar.
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