RECIPE: REC: Coffee & Hazelnut Crescent cookies

RECIPE:
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Did this Sunday for our cookie exchange smileys/smile.gif They are yumm. Not too sweet either.

Ingredients

* 1 1/4 cup plain flour

* 2 tablespoons caster sugar

* 125g (4oz) butter

* 60g (2oz) hazelnuts

* 1 egg yolk

* 3 teaspoon strong expresso

* 1/2 cup caster sugar, extra

Directions

1. Add sugar to flour

2. Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs

3. Grind hazlnuts finely in blender, sift, and add to mixture (sifting avoids bigger chunks that didn't get ground)

4. Add egg yolk and expresso

5. Refrigerate covered dough 30 minutes (not much longer, else the dough will be too stiff to work!)

6. Roll 2 teaspoons of dough into 5cm (2") lengths then shape into crescents

7. Place crescents on baking sheet lined with oven paper and bake for 12 minutes

8. Remove warm crescents and roll immediately in extra sugar (if the crescents have cooled down, the sugar won't stick)

9. Cool on wire rack

http://cookie-swap.blogspot.com/2009/05/coffee-hazelnut-crescents.html

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Raw, skin on smileys/smile.gif

And it's Nic smileys/smile.gif But I'll respond to most anything, including bozo *grin*

Lemme know how you get on smileys/smile.gif

 
Thanks Nic! These look identical to ones my mom makes, except with walnuts.

And caster sugar...that's superfine, right? Not powdered (confectionary) sugar?

And last, how did you find a brilliant group of people that will swap cookies when it's not Christmas?

 
Not Nic but NZ time he's doubtless sleeping. Yes, caster sugar is superfine.

In Canada it's labelled as "berry sugar".

 
Mimi's right, as usual smileys/smile.gif

Caster, superfine, berry sugar, quick disolving... The finest sugar before icing sugar (confectionary, powdered, which incidentally contains starch).

And I was sound asleep smileys/smile.gif

As for group of people, I just asked around on Twitter, setup the web page, and people started signing up smileys/smile.gif We don't need the Christmas excuse to make and eat cookies smileys/wink.gif

 
Question - How to translate this to "wheat free" ??

Mate of mine tried one of them and just loves it. But she can't have too much wheat in her diet. I'm not familliar with translating wheat-based recipes to wheat-free.

Anyone has any ideas on how to proceed?

 
Pot-ah-to / pot-ay-to

*shrug* Cookies, biscuits, it's all the same in the end. Except that if I say cookies, kiwis understand me. If I say biscuits, most Americans think of a scone-like savoury thing.

Besides, I learned English in Canada and the US smileys/smile.gif

 
As a Canadian, he's allowed to say cookie regardless of how the Kiwis have corrupted his English ;o)

 
I was jesting...had read your cookie exchange forum yesterday so I couldn't resist. ;o)

Wish I was downunder so I could participate in your cookie/"biscuit" exchange.

 
How can you find conf sugar without cornstarch?? A french pastry book specified

powdered sugar without cornstarch, but I haven't a clue how to get it.

 
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