Sour Cream Crescent Cookies with Filling

Recipe: Sour Cream Crescent Cookies

Ingredients

Dough:

• Butter – 180–200 g, cold
• Sour cream – 200 g, cold
• All-purpose flour – 350–380 g
• Vanilla sugar or vanillin – a pinch (optional)
• Salt – a pinch

Filling (choose one):

• Fruit jam or preserves – 250 g
  or
• Walnuts – 100 g, finely chopped
• Sugar – 100 g

For topping:

• Powdered sugar (for dusting)

Instructions

1. Chill the butter and sour cream well before starting.
2. Sift the flour with salt into a bowl. Add the cold butter cut into small pieces.
3. Chop and rub the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse crumbs.
4. Add sour cream and mix first with a spoon, then quickly knead by hand.
5. Form the dough into a ball, divide it in half, then cut each half into 4 pieces.
6. Shape each piece into a ball. Refrigerate for 30–60 minutes.
7. Roll each ball into a thin circle and cut it into 8 wedges.
8. Place filling on the wide end of each wedge and roll into crescents.
9. Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 20–25 minutes, until lightly golden.
10. Cool slightly and dust with powdered sugar before serving.