Vanilla Crescents
Ingredients
- 1 stick plus 6 tbsp 200 g Butter
- 2¼ cups 280 g Flour
- ⅓ cup 80 g Confectioner’s sugar
- 3.5 oz 100 g Nuts, ground
- Confectioner’s sugar and vanilla sugar to coat
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °F).
- Coat the butter in the flour on a pastry board.
- Knead with confectioner’s sugar and ground nuts to a smooth dough.
- Chill for about half an hour.
- Form a log from the dough.
- Cut off small pieces and shape them into crescents.
- Set them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for about 10 minutes.
- Carefully (they break easily!
- ) roll the still-hot crescents in a mixture of confectioner’s sugar and vanilla sugar.