Half Moon Cookies

Name: Half Moon Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 40
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 13 Tbsps butter, chilled and diced; 1 egg; 1 egg white; 414 milliliters all-purpose flour; 79 milliliters pearl sugar; 79 milliliters chopped pecans; 118 milliliters potato flour; 118 milliliters strawberry jam; 79 milliliters white sugar

Half Moon Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 92 calories. This recipe serves 40. If you have sugar, egg, pearl sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Sift the all-purpose flour, potato flour and white sugar together.

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Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

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Add the egg and mix just until the dough begins to gather together. Form the dough into a ball, then flatten into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

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Wrap

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Divide dough in half and soften at room temperature for 15 minutes.

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Knead dough briefly to soften, adding more flour it too sticky to work with.

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Roll 1 piece of dough out between sheets of floured wax paper to a thickness of 1/8 inch.

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Roll

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Cut out rounds that are 2 1/2 inches across using a fluted cookie cutter or tart mold.

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Transfer cookies to the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.

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Place 1/4 teaspoon preserves in center of each cookie. Gently fold half of cookie over preserves, covering 2/3 of bottom half of cookie (a little bit of the bottom layer of the cookie should be showing).

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Combine pearl sugar and nuts.

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Nuts

Brush cookies lightly with beaten egg white.

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Sprinkle generously with nut mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 10 minutes or until a pale golden color. Cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes then transfer to rack and cool completely.

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