Almond Crescent cookies. Studded with almonds and fragrant with almond extract, these delicate cookies make the perfect holiday treat with eggnog, hot cocoa, or cider. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Place onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Almond Crescent Cookies, a must make melt in your mouth, shortbread type Christmas Cookie. Fast, easy and the perfect addition to your Cookie Tray.
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Spray several cookie sheets with cooking spray.
With a mixer, beat the butter with sugar until light and fluffy.
You can cook Almond Crescent cookies using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Almond Crescent cookies
- Prepare 1 cup (2 sticks) of unsalted butter - softened at room temp.
- It's 1/2 cup of confectioners/powdered sugar **plus more for rolling, about 1/2 cup.
- It's 1 tsp of almond extract.
- You need 2 cup of flour.
- Prepare 1 cup of finely ground blanched almonds.
These Almond Crescent Cookies are perfect for baking all year round from summertime stargazing party to a holiday cookie swap. Mandelsichel, traditional German almond cookies, are simple shortbread cookies enriched with almond meal and shaped into a crescent, like many classic baked goods in Europe, which are said to emulate the Ottoman half-moon and celebrate the empire's greatness when the bakes were first developed. These cookies are a delightful treat at tea time and beautiful addition to any Plätzchenteller. Almond Crescent Cookies are a classic that need to be at the top of your baking list!!
Almond Crescent cookies step by step
- In a large bowl beat butter until smooth. Gradually add sugar (the 1/2cup) and cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add extract and beat until combined..
- Sift the flour and gradually stir it into the cream mixture add almonds and mix together until it forms a dough. Shape dough into a ball, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Preheat oven to 350°F..
- Line cookie/ baking sheet with parchment paper..
- Non traditional method: Cut dough into four sections. Working with one section at a time, pinch off pieces of dough and with clean hands form into a log. Shape into crescents, pinching ends. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet. Repeat for remaining dough..
- Traditional method: Divide dough into 8 equal pieces. Flour hands and work surface. Shape each piece of dough into a roll about a 1/2 an inch thick. Cut each roll into 2 inch pieces. Place on cookie sheet and shape each piece into crescents, gently pinching ends..
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until crescents start to faintly brown. Remove from oven and cool on wrack..
- When crescents are completely cooled, place remaining powdered sugar in a dish, add crescents, one at a time, and cover in powdered sugar. Repeat until all crescents are coated..
- Enjoy!!!.
- Store in airtight container..
How to Make Almond Crescent Cookies. To make these simple Almond Crescent Cookies you will start by making a shortbread type dough. This dough comes together quickly if using a stand mixer or hand mixer. In a large mixing bowl combine the butter and sugar and. Taper ends and form crescent shape on ungreased cookie sheet..