Almond Crescent Cookies(Eggless)

Its strange..whenever I’m planning to cook for an event[in blogosphere],I always look for baking recipes.Its even more strange that whenever I chance upon a new blog,the first label I hit is baking..;-). Sometime back,a friend asked me who eats all the baked stuff I make.I laughed it off,but when I actually thought about it I felt slightly offended.Same thing happened when I posted a diet idea,someone asked me did I really lose weight since I post so many “yummy recipes”[in their words,not mine]in this blog.I got a similar comment here,asking me how to eat up all those goodies.So,its time for me to explain.Or so it seems.

Initially,when I started baking,I couldn’t stop myself from opening the fridge everytime and having “one last slice of cake” or opening up the cookie jar and having “last cookie,I promise”.Even though it wasn’t much,I did not want to gorge on it knowing how much ‘flour-butter-sugar” went into it.Its like the chocolate theory-if you have one chocolate bar inside your fridge,you’ll definitely go for it.So don’t buy chocolate!!So what did I do,stopped baking..hah,isn’t that the easier way?

But there were so many recipes I wanted to try out.I had to don my apron and start baking…again!! But this time with a twist.I became a good neighbour,good friend and good relative etc etc.Don’t get the point?I started sharing my baked goodies.The joy of sharing became immense,even more when they started looking forward to my next baking sojourn.Now I bake away to glory,keep aside a very less portion for both of us and share the rest.It makes me feel so good!!

When I saw this month’s Lets go nuts-Almonds,I again searched for baking recipes.Mainly because I had some powdered almonds with me and I was wondering what to do with it.I had to act fast since I missed last months event,when I had a post ready for it[Cookies,again].I got the recipe from here,but I made it with some modifications.Crispy,crunchy,melt in the mouth Almond cookies.

Almond Crescent Cookies [Adapted from Simply Recipes]

Ingredients

Maida/Flour – 2 cups
Powdered sugar – ½ cup
Butter,softened – 1 cup
Powdered almonds – 1 cup
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Almond essence – 1 tsp
Icing sugar – for dusting

Method

Preheat oven to 150*C.
Mix butter and powdered sugar till it becomes light & creamy.
Add vanilla & almond essence-mix well.
Slowly add the flour and powdered almonds and knead till it forms a soft dough.
Take a big pinch of the dough and loosely shape into a ball-flatten it.
Using the lid of a tin,make it into a neat round shape.
Now take a smaller lid and cut the cookie into two crescents.
So with one round you’ll get two crescents and one almond shaped cookie.
Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 20 minutes or till done. Dust with icing sugar and let it cool on a wire rack.

Sending this across to JZ who is hosting this month's Lets Go Nuts-Almonds.

Also to LG of Taste of Mysore for SWC-Meals on Wheels.