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Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe

To me, it isn't Christmas until my kitchen is filled with these almond cookies baking by the dozens. My husband, children and grandchildren all heartily agree!

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Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe

Prep: 25 min. + chilling Bake: 15 min./batch

Yield: 60 Servings

25 15 40

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely ground almonds
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. In a small bowl, combine the flour, almonds and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture until blended. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
Divide dough into fourths. Roll out each portion into a long rope, about 1/4 in. diameter. Cut into 2-in. lengths. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets; form each into a crescent.
Bake at 325° for 14-16 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes. In a shallow bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and cinnamon; roll warm cookies in sugar mixture. Place on wire racks to cool completely. Yield: about 10 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 55 calories, 4 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 8 mg cholesterol, 41 mg sodium, 5 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as Almond Crescents in Country Woman Christmas Annual 1999, p35

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Reviewed on Dec. 17, 2012 by Astheart

Those are ones of the most popular Christmas cookies in the Czech Republic. Here we use all kinds of nuts to make them from not only almonds. Adding salt is not necessary. We call them vanilla crescents as we roll warm cookies in the mixture of sugar and vanilla sugar. Their smell and taste then are fantastic! Everybody loves them! :)

Reviewed on Oct. 25, 2008 by winniepooh8385

Reviewed on Dec. 25, 2007 by tinkaandme

Delicious flavor; crispy and light. Not a choice if you are in a hurry as the dough requires chilling and the rolling out is time consuming. I found the 1/4 inch rope to be too small. Slightly larger, maybe 1/2 inch, would be better, then slightly tapered at the ends when forming the crescent shape. But overall a very good cookie.