Clever cookie trick: Form vanilla crescents in just a few seconds

The classic in every Christmas bakery are the delicate vanilla crescents. Their fine vanilla taste and buttery consistency make them oneabsolute favorites of the Germans. Plus, they're so beautiful to look at too! But forming these small half-moons can be quite a task, especially for larger quantitiesChallengebe. With a clever trick you can make vanilla crescents in just a few seconds.

Instead of laboriously rolling small pieces of dough and then shaping them into the classic croissants, you can do thisachieve the same result much faster, using a cookie cutter. It may sound unusual, but it works perfectly – and saves an incredible amount of time!

Prepare your vanilla crescent dough as usual. The ingredients are simple: butter, powdered sugar, eggs, vanilla sugar, flour and some ground almonds. The dough should be well chilled and firm so that it doesn't warp when you cut it out.

Instead of rolling the dough with your hands, choose a cookie cutter in the shape of a large circle (other designs that have a circle are also possible - such as the shape of a gingerbread man and you only use the top part of the head).

Now form rolls of dough that are roughly the same width and thickness as you imagine your vanilla crescents to be.

Now comes the quick part: Take your mold and cut off small crescents of dough using just the top half of the circle. The perfect shape is created in just a few seconds!

Place the cut crescents on a tray lined with baking paper and bake them as usual in a preheated oven (usually at around 175 °C for 10-12 minutes, depending on the size of the crescents). After baking, roll the warm croissants in powdered sugar and your tender, golden brown vanilla croissants are ready.

The big advantage of the trick is not only that you can handle larger quantities of cookies quickly, but that the cookies end up all being about the same size. ThisuniformityNot only does it look good, but it also results in uniformityBaking result.