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Vanillekipferl (Almond Crescent Cookies)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Holiday, Baked

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Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AVanillekipferl_%28Almond_Crescent_Cookies%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AVanillekipferl%20%28Almond%20Crescent%20Cookies%29&oldid=4515347

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 350 g plain flour
  • 200 g cold unsalted butter
  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 100 g finely-ground almonds
  • 1 egg
  • 1 packet (8 g) vanilla sugar
  • 1 pinch salt

Decoration

  • 60 g icing sugar
  • 2 packets (16 g) of vanilla sugar

Directions

  1. Sift the flour into a bowl.
  2. Cut the cold butter into slices and mix it with the flour.
  3. Add icing sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, ground almonds, and egg to the mixture.
  4. Rinse hands in cold water, and knead the dough on a pastry board. Let the dough rest for half an hour.
  5. Grease a baking tray, or alternatively use a sheet of baking paper to prevent the kipferl from sticking.
  6. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4 ).
  7. Form the dough to a cylinder with a diameter of approximately 5 cm, and cut off 0.5 cm thick slices. Roll them between your flat palms to form a sausage shape that is slightly tapered.
  8. Lay them in crescent shape on the baking tray, and bake them for 8–10 minutes until they are a light golden brown.
  9. Immediately after baking, dip the Kipferl into a mixture of icing sugar and vanilla sugar. Try some—they are delicious while still warm!
  10. Leave the rest out overnight, and then store them in an airtight tin.

Notes

Vanilla sugar can be bought in many supermarkets. Alternatively, it can be made by putting a vanilla-pod and some sugar in an airtight jar for a week or two.