Recipe: Appetizing Crescent Cookies

Crescent Cookies. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour. This crescent cookie recipe is made with ground walnuts. Other types of crescent cookies are made with pecans, almonds, or hazelnuts. These traditional cookies will almost melt in your mouth. To get the proper consistency in these cookies, make sure the almonds are finely ground.

Walnut crescent cookies are usually made for Christmas in many European countries. In my family we bake walnut crescent cookies in the middle of December, because they are one of those. These crescent-shaped cookies originate from Vienna, Austria, where they are a much-loved, traditional Christmas cookie. You can have Crescent Cookies using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crescent Cookies

1. It's of Mix.
2. It's 1/2 cup of soft shortening.
3. You need 1/2 cup of Butter.
4. You need 1/3 cup of Sugar.
5. It's 2/3 cup of Ground Blanched Almonds.
6. You need of Sift Together.
7. Prepare 1 2/3 cup of Flour.
8. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare of Powder Dip.
10. Prepare 1 cup of 10X confectionary sugar.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.

Precise Baking For Our Almond and Vanilla Crescent Cookies. Simple and delicious Eggless Vanilla Crescent Cookies Recipe. These simple almond flour crescent cookies are a healthy take on my nanny's signature crescent cookie recipe. These Viennese vanilla crescent cookies are traditional hazelnut cookies shaped like a half-moon and dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Crescent Cookies step by step

1. Mix shortening, butter, sugar, and almonds.
2. sift flour and salt together and work into mix.
3. chill dough.
4. Preheat oven to 335°F.
5. Roll dough into strips about the size of a pencil. cut into 2" lengths.
6. place pieces in a crescent shape on ungreased pan.
7. bake 14-16 minutes until set (just brown).
8. while still slightly warm, coat with powder dip.

Viennese vanilla crescent cookies are a tradition in Austria. A light buttery shortbread cookie with chopped pecan and rolled on powdered sugar. One of my families favorite holiday cookies. A little relic from the holidays to share with you today — these almond crescent cookies (or moon cookies, as we called them. These tempting cookies were nearly impossible to sneak a pre-holiday nibble of, because even one bite would yield a trail of powdered sugar all over the kitchen, your shirt and your mouth!