Almond crescent cookies are simple cookies enriched with almond meal and shaped into a crescent. They are a delightful snack treat for your Lunchbox. They look deliciously pretty on your cookie platter, and their light, delicate texture, and sweet, buttery flavor make them a delight to eat!
The key flavor in these cookies is from the almond meal. You can buy almond meal in grocery stores. You can grate almond nuts in your food processor.
You can make these cookies with walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts, and you can choose your favorite nut, or use all three!
Tips for making crescent moon cookies
The ground almonds give the cookie a delicious taste, but they also make the dough a little crumbly, so extra care is needed when shaping the tiny crescents and when storing them in an air-tight container to prevent breakage. It is this light and tender texture that makes them delicate — but also so delicious!
Keep the dough refrigerated and cool before you begin shaping the cookies to help retain the firmness of the butter.
The dough may crumble a bit when you first start, but eventually the warmth from your hands will give it a soft pliability that is just right.
Also be sure not to over-bake the cookies. Bake them just until they look firm without browning.
You can make them in the traditional crescent shape, or personalize them by making them into tiny snowballs or rolling them into little cylinders.
No matter what shape you choose, one bite of the sweet, light and airy little crescents, and you will know why this recipe was viewed as a treasure.
After you make a batch of these crescent moon cookies, serve them up on a pretty platter with a steaming cup of cocoa, coffee or tea.
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