spiced hazelnut crescent cookies
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This is one of my favorite cookies. My good friend Roula use to make them for me all the time. Until I begged for the recipe. I like them with lots of the icing sugar mixture on them.... I hope you will enjoy this delicious treat as much as we do.
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prep time
10 Min
cook time
15 Min
method
Bake
yield
12 (5 cookies per serving)
Ingredients
- - 150 gr butter, break into small pieces
- - 210 gr flour, baking
- - 80 gr hazelnuts, ground
- - 80 gr powdered sugar
- - 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- - 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- - 1/8 tsp mace
- - 1 egg, large
- - 60 gr powdered sugar (garnish)
- - 3 tbsp vanilla sugar (garnish)
How To Make spiced hazelnut crescent cookies
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Step 1Preheat oven to 160C.
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Step 2Using a large bowl, sieve the flour into it.
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Step 3Cut the cold butter into the flour and mix.
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Step 4Next add the powdered sugar, ground cinnamon, nutmeg and mace, the ground hazelnuts and the whole egg.
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Step 5To help knead the mixture into a dough quickly, you will need to rinse your hands in cold water. It helps the dough to cling together easily.
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Step 6Wrap the dough and chill for half an hour.
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Step 7Form the dough into thumb thick rolls and cut into 1 cm wide pieces.
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Step 8Now roll and form the dough into crescents.
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Step 9Bake in a 160° Celsius oven for 10-15 minutes, or until the cookies are light gold in color.
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Step 10Mix the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar together, well.
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Step 11Roll or sprinkle the powdered sugar mixture on the cookies. You want to do this while the cookies are hot, it will stick easier.
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Step 12You can decide how much sugar you want on the cookies, if you want more, roll them again. Hope you will enjoy this lovely treat.
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