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Today’s Homemade Holidays feature is a recipe for delicate, melt-in-your-mouth Almond Crescent cookies.

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Today’s Homemade Holidays feature is a recipe for delicate, melt-in-your-mouth Almond Crescent cookies.

“This is a cookie my Nana used to make, not necessarily for holidays specifically, but it’s one of my favourites, so now I make them every year. Almond and vanilla is such a classic combo and I love that this recipe isn’t super sweet,” writes Erin Lebar, the Free Press’s manager of audience engagement (and a heck of a baker).

EVA WASNEY PHOTO
                                Erin Lebar learned to make these Almond Crescent cookies from her Nana.

EVA WASNEY PHOTO

Erin Lebar learned to make these Almond Crescent cookies from her Nana.

Almond Crescents

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Ingredients

  • 500 ml (2 cups) flour
  • 250 ml (1 cup) ground almonds
  • 1 pkg vanilla sugar
  • 310 ml (1 ¼ cup) cold butter

For decoration

  • 250 ml (1 cup) icing sugar
  • 1 pkg vanilla sugar
  • Preheat oven to 165 C (325 F)

Directions

1. Mix together flour, ground almonds and vanilla sugar.

2. Cut in cold butter; work mixture together quickly into a smooth dough.

3. Shape into rolls about the size of a pencil; cut 5-cm (2-inch) pieces and form them into a crescent shape.

4. Bake on a greased baking sheet or on parchment paper for 15 to 17 minutes.

5. Mix icing sugar and vanilla sugar together; roll warm cookies in sugar mix.

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