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    • Ground walnuts give these pretty little crescent cookies a satisfying, nutty crunch.

    Ingredients

    Makes: cookies

      • 1/2 cup walnuts, ground fine in an electric coffee or spice grinder
      • 2 tablespoons plus 1 cup confectioners' sugar
      • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
      • 1/2 teaspoon salt
      • 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into 24 pieces

    Directions

    In a food processor, blend walnuts and 2 tablespoons confectioners sugar until finely chopped, then blend together with flour, and salt, pulsing until combined. Add the butter, and blend the mixture until it forms a dough. Form the dough into a ball, flatten it slightly, and chill it, wrapped in wax paper, for at least 2 hours or overnight.

    Roll walnut-size pieces of the dough on a lightly floured surface into ropes about 1/3 inch thick, cut the ropes into 2 1/2-inch lengths, and roll the ends lightly to narrow them. Bend the lengths to form crescents, arrange the crescents about 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets, and bake them in batches in the middle of a preheated 350F oven for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the edges are pale golden.

    While each batch of the crescents is baking, sift enough of the confectioners' sugar into a jelly-roll pan to cover the bottom. While the crescents are still warm, transfer them carefully with a metal spatula to the pan and sift some of the remaining confectioners' sugar over them. Let the cookies cool completely before transferring them to storage tins.

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