Light recipe for vanilla crescents with walnuts and powdered sugar
Ingredients
- 250 g flour
- 200 g butter, cold in pieces
- 100 g walnuts, ground
- 1 p. Vanilla sugar
- 70 g powdered sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- ½ p. baking powder
- 100 g powdered sugar, for dusting
- 2 p. vanilla sugar, for dusting
Utensils
- bowl
- hand mixer with dough hook
- cling film
- baking paper
Instructions
- Sieve the flour and baking powder into a bowl.
- Then add the ground walnuts, icing sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks and cold butter.
- Using the kneading hooks of the hand mixer, knead everything quickly to form a smooth dough.
- If the dough is too crumbly cold water can be added.
- Shape the dough into a sausage and divide into 4 equal pieces.
- Wrap each piece of dough in cling film and place in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
- Work the pieces of dough out of the fridge one after the other .
- Shape the piece of dough into a sausage and cut it into 2 cm wide pieces.
- Roll the pieces of dough and form crescents.
- It is important that the ends of the crescent shape are not too thin, otherwise they will burn quickly when baking.
- Because the recipe contains baking powder, the biscuits will be a bit larger.
- That’s why the vanilla crescents have to be placed at intervals on the baking sheet.
- The biscuits shouldn’t melt while shaping, so m The dough must be processed quickly.
- Otherwise, the ready-shaped vanilla crescents can be placed in the fridge or freezer for 10-15 minutes before baking.
- Bake the biscuits in the oven for 12-15 minutes at 175°C.
- Powdered sugar with Mix the vanilla sugar in a bowl.
- Dip the vanilla crescents into the vanilla sugar immediately after baking.
