Vanille-Kipferl / Vanilla-half-moons

Author: Lu

Ingredients:

• sugar	125 g
• Egg yolks	3
• flour	250 g
• baking soda	1 tablespoon
• vanilla sugar	8 tablespoons
• soft butter	200 g
• ground almonds	125 g
• icing sugar	50 g

1. Take 4 tablespoons of vanilla sugar, flour, baking soda, egg yolks, soft butter and ground almonds and make a dough.

2. Take a pit from the dough and roll it to a roll of approximately the thickness of your finger. Rest the dough keep inside the fridge. Take the roll and cut it into 4-5 cm long pieces; form them to little half moons.

3. Take a baking tray, put baking paper on it, and then place the half moons on it. Bake it 10-15 min at 180C (356F) (PREHEATED!).

4. Take the half moons from the tray, mix icing with remaining 4 tablespoons of vanilla sugar and put this on the hot(!) half moons. Let them cool down, then put the rest of the vanilla-icing-sugar on them.