Danish Vanilla Crescent Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 150 g butter
• 210 g flour
• 80 g ground hazelnuts or 80 g almonds
• 80 g powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 60 g powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons vanilla sugar

Recipe

• 1 sieve the flour into a heap on a pastry board or into a large bowl.
• 2 cut the cold butter into small pieces and mix with the flour. add powdered sugar, ground almonds or hazelnuts and the egg.
• 3 rinse hands with cold water and quickly knead mixture into a crisp dough. chill for half an hour.
• 4 form thumb thick rolls from the dough, cut into 1 cm wide pieces, roll and form crescents.
• 5 bake at slow to medium heat (160° celsius) for 10-15 minutes, or until very light gold in colour.
• 6 turn the crescents in a mixture of powdered sugar and vanilla sugar while still hot. enjoy!