Vanilla Crescents - Vanillekipferl Recipe (2024)

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Vanilla Crescents are almond cookies with a rich vanilla taste and a moon shape. We call them Vanillekipferl and they have a soft texture that gently falls apart in your mouth to unleash a delicious vanilla taste.

How to bake Vanilla Crescents

The recipe is fairly easy and shaping the crescents is too. The ingredients are mixt either by hand or by a machine. I prefer to mix this by hand since this is how I have learned it and has become a tradition to continue to do it like that. The downside of this technic is that the temperature of your hands lets the butter in the dough get warm and too soft if you knead too long. So working fast is key! If you tend to have very warm hands you might prefer the electric mixer to make the dough.

Video how to make Vanilla Crescents

Which Almond Flour

I sometimes use the fine almond flour that is just white an has little to no almond skin in it. But traditionally we have the almond flour (or almond meal) that has the skin mostly on and therefore has a little more of a brown color. Either way will work.

If you can get almond flour in your area, here is how to make your own:

But almonds in a bowl and pour boiling water over them. Let stand for a couple of minutes, then remove the water. Put the almonds on a clean kitchen towel. Use a second kitchen towel on top of the almonds and use it to rub off the skin from the almonds. They don’t need to be all gone, just remove as much as possible with a reasonable effort. Then put the almonds into a food processor or other kind of machine that can grind and grind until the almonds are finely cut into a flour like texture.

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