Vanille Kipferl - Crescent Moon Cookies (Kue Putri Salju)

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour (250g)
1 pinch of salt
200g butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
1/2 cup powdered  sugar (100g)
2 egg yolks
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup of ground almonds (100g)
Powdered sugar for rolling

• In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour and the salt. Add in the butter, mix it well with a spatula or with your hands.
• Add in the sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract, vanilla sugar, ground almonds and mix just until well combined. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 200 ˚C, prepare baking sheets by lining them with parchment papers.
• Divide the dough into several parts, take one part and refrigerate the rest. Take a teaspoon of dough and shape into ball, roll into small short log form, bend the dough and shape into crescent moon form with pointed end. Repeat to the rest of the dough. 
• Lay the crescent form cookies over prepared baking sheet, leaving about 2 cm between cookies. Bake for about 9 to 12 minutes or until the cookies are slightly brown. 
• Remove cookies from the oven, let it cool for about 3 to 5 minutes and then roll carefully the warm cookies in the powdered sugar.