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.

Provided by Baby Kato @BabyKato

Categories     Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 10

- 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)

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 160C.
  • Using a large bowl, sieve the flour into it.
  • Cut the cold butter into the flour and mix.
  • Next add the powdered sugar, ground cinnamon, nutmeg and mace, the ground hazelnuts and the whole egg.
  • To 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.
  • Wrap the dough and chill for half an hour.
  • Form the dough into thumb thick rolls and cut into 1 cm wide pieces.
  • Now roll and form the dough into crescents.
  • Bake in a 160° Celsius oven for 10-15 minutes, or until the cookies are light gold in color.
  • Mix the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar together, well.
  • Roll or sprinkle the powdered sugar mixture on the cookies. You want to do this while the cookies are hot, it will stick easier.
  • You 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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