Vanilla Crescent Cookies (Vanillekipferl)

The 4th day of advent

Ingredients:

• 300g wheat flour type 480
• 200g butter
• 100g powdered sugar
• 100g almond meal
• 2 egg yolks
•        1 pack of vanilla sugar (c. 8g)
•        the pulp from one vanilla pod (can replace with vanilla extract)
•           A pinch of salt

Instructions:

• Mix room temperature butter with the egg yolks, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, vanilla pulp and salt until smooth. 
• Then briefly knead in the wheat flour and almond meal. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it sit in a cool place for one hour. 
• To make the cookies, form the dough into multiple long strands and then divide into small pieces of equal size.
• Shape the pieces into a crescent form and lay them on a baking tray that has been lined with parchment paper. 
• Bake the vanilla crescents at 170°C.
• After baking, let them cool a little before coating in a mixture of powdered and vanilla sugar.