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Almond Crescents, Butterscotch Icing

Almond Crescents, Butterscotch Icing

AvatarCanning Homemade
Almond Crescents, Butterscotch Icing
Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 1 hr 30 mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 6 people
Calories 250 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup [225 g] unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon [140 mL] icing sugar
  • 1/4 cup [1 mL] salt
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] almond extract
  • 1 3/4 cups [245 g] all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup [190 mL] ground almond
  • 1 tsp Butterscotch Icing
  • 1/2 cup [125 mL] packed golden brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons [30 mL] half-and-half
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons [22.5 g] unsalted butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon [1 mL] salt
  • 1/2 cup [125 mL] almond slices

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 300°F [150°C].
  • Cover 2 cookie sheets with parchment.
  • Into a large bowl, beat together softened unslated butter, icing sugar and salt at medium speed of an electric beater until smooth and foamy.
  • Well beat in almond extract.
  • Slowly mix in flour beating until well blended in.
  • Using a spoon, mix in ground almond until well blended into dough.
  • Shape dough, 1 tablespoon [15 mL] at a time, into 3-inch [7.6-cm] long rolls.
  • Shpae rolls into crescents; arrange apart onto prepared cookie sheets.
  • Bake into preheated oven for approxximately 20 to 25 minutes, until just golden.
  • Leave to cool onto cookie sheets for 5 minutes then transfer crescents onto wire racks; leave to cool completely.
  • Then, into a small casserole, mix together butterscotch icing golden brown sugar, half-and-half, unsalted butter and salt.
  • Heat mixture over low heat stirring to completely melt butter and dissolve brown sugar.
  • Pour mixture here and there over cooled crescents.
  • Evenly sprinkle all crescents with almond slices.
  • Leave crescents to cool for approximately 30 minutes more, until icing is set.
  • Servings: 36 to 42 crescents
Keyword Almond Crescents, Butterscotch Icing