Almond Pastry Crescents Recipe
Ingredients
| All purpose flour | 2 1/4 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Salt | 1/2 Teaspoon | |
| Butter/Margarine | 1 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Ice water | 4 Tablespoon | |
| Almond paste | 1 Can (10oz) | |
| Egg | 1 | |
| Granulated Sugar | 2 Tablespoon | |
| Ground almonds | 1/3 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Confectioner’s sugar | 2/3 Cup (16 tbs), powdered |
Directions
1. Combine flour and salt in a medium-size bowl. Cut in butter or margarine with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Add ice water, a tablespoon at a time; combine with' a fork until mixture is moistened.
2. Shape pastry into a ball; wrap in wax paper. Refrigerate 1 hour.
3. Place almond paste in a small bowl; break up with a fork. Beat in egg, the 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and ground almonds until mix ture is thoroughly combined. (Mix ture will be sticky.)
4. Turn almond mixture out onto a; lightly floured pastry cloth or board. Shape into a ball with floured hands.: Divide into thirds. Shape each third into a rope 1/2-inch thick and 16 inches long. (If mixture sticks, flour hands and surface lightly.) Cut eachi rope into 16 one-inch pieces; reserve.
5. Roll out pastry, a third at a time, to a 12-inch square on a lightly floured pastry cloth or board. Cut into 16 three-inch squares carefully with pastry wheel.
6. Place one piece of almond paste: diagonally across one corner of each pastry square. Lift the point over the paste and roll, jelly roll fashion. Pinch the ends enclosing the almond filling. Curve the pastry into a crescent.
7. Place, 1 inch apart, on ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake in hot oven (400°) 12 minutes, or until edges of cookies just begin to brown.
9. Place 10X sugar in a pie plate or on large sheet of wax paper. Place warm cookies, upside down, a few at a time, into sugar and coat, turning once or twice.
10. Place cookies on wire racks to cool completely. Store in wax-paper-separated layers in an airtight tin. Sprinkle with additional 10X sugar before serving.
2. Shape pastry into a ball; wrap in wax paper. Refrigerate 1 hour.
3. Place almond paste in a small bowl; break up with a fork. Beat in egg, the 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and ground almonds until mix ture is thoroughly combined. (Mix ture will be sticky.)
4. Turn almond mixture out onto a; lightly floured pastry cloth or board. Shape into a ball with floured hands.: Divide into thirds. Shape each third into a rope 1/2-inch thick and 16 inches long. (If mixture sticks, flour hands and surface lightly.) Cut eachi rope into 16 one-inch pieces; reserve.
5. Roll out pastry, a third at a time, to a 12-inch square on a lightly floured pastry cloth or board. Cut into 16 three-inch squares carefully with pastry wheel.
6. Place one piece of almond paste: diagonally across one corner of each pastry square. Lift the point over the paste and roll, jelly roll fashion. Pinch the ends enclosing the almond filling. Curve the pastry into a crescent.
7. Place, 1 inch apart, on ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake in hot oven (400°) 12 minutes, or until edges of cookies just begin to brown.
9. Place 10X sugar in a pie plate or on large sheet of wax paper. Place warm cookies, upside down, a few at a time, into sugar and coat, turning once or twice.
10. Place cookies on wire racks to cool completely. Store in wax-paper-separated layers in an airtight tin. Sprinkle with additional 10X sugar before serving.
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