Vanille Kipferln - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup very hard butter
1/2 cup almonds or 1/2 cup hazelnuts, ground
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla sugar
confectioners' sugar, vanilla-flavored

Preparation

Sift the flour and cut in the butter. Add salt, nuts and vanilla sugar.
Crumble and knead quickly to a smooth pastry. Roll pastry into long tube shape.
Put into the refridgerator, wrapped in waxed paper or aluminum foil, to rest for 20 minutes or longer.
When ready to bake, heat oven to 350\u00b0F Cut roll into slices one-half width of thumbnail and then across each slice to create half moon shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until slightly golden brown. Sprinkle with vanilla-flavored confectioners sugar while still hot.