Vanilla Crescent Cookies – Czech Vanilkové rohlíčky

Vanilla Crescent Cookies – Czech Vanilkové rohlíčky

Czech Christmas wouldn’t be complete without vanilla crescent cookies. They are the first type of Christmas cookies that disappears from the table! In Czech, we call them vanilkové rohlíčky.

Course cookies

Cuisine Czech

Keyword Czech Christmas

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 8

Resting Time 2

Total Time 2 28

Servings pieces

Calories 54kcal

Author Petra Kupská

Ingredients

Vanilla crescent dough:

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ⅓ stick unsalted butter cold
½ cup powdered sugar
½ cup walnuts shelled (or pecans)
1 egg yolk

For coating:

¾ cup powdered sugar

Cups - Metric

Instructions

Grind ½ cup walnuts and put them in a bowl.
Add 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, 1 ⅓ stick unsalted butter cut into pieces, ½ cup powdered sugar and 1 egg yolk.
Using your hands, work the ingredients into a compact dough. Be patient; it takes about five minutes for everything to come together nicely.
Shape the dough into a cylinder, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for two hours to rest.
After resting, unwrap the dough from the foil. Knead it briefly to soften, then divide it in half. Roll each half into a long cylinder about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Slice into equal-sized pieces.
Roll each piece into a strand app. 2 inches (5 cm) long. Gently bend the strands into crescent shapes and arrange them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F for 8 minutes.
Let the crescents cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then roll each one in ¾ cup powdered sugar.

Notes

I grate the nuts using a manual rotary grinder with a fine shredding blade.
Let the crescents cool for a few minutes after baking. Then remove cookies from the baking sheet and coat them with vanilla sugar while they are still warm.
Be careful when coating, the rolls are fragile!
To make baking easier, get a silicone mold with crescent shapes to press the dough in.
Czechs usually bake these crescents in the second or third week of Advent. These crescents are crispy right after baking but will soften in about one two weeks—just as Czech Christmas cookies are meant to be!
Store them in a cool place, stacked in a paper box with a lid, lined with foil.

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