Cinnamon Hazelnut Crescents

Prep Time:

10 min

Cook Time:

10 min

Total Time:

20 min

Servings:

Cinnamon Hazelnut Crescents are warm, tender, and the perfect dessert to enjoy as the weather gets colder. Each crescent cookie is rolled in cinnamon for a powerful and warm spicy flavoring.

Ingredients

1 cup butter or margarine
1 ½ cups sifted confectioners’ sugar, divided
2 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup (3 oz) toasted ground hazelnuts
2 ½ tsp ground cinnamon, divided
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)

How to make it

1

Beat butter, 3/4 cup of the sugar and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer until creamy.
2

Combine flour, hazelnuts, 1 tsp of the cinnamon and salt.
3

Add to butter mixture; beat just until combined.
4

Add oats; beat until combined.
5

Cover and refrigerate dough until firm, about 2 hours or overnight.
6

Heat oven to 350°F.
7

Combine remaining 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar and remaining 1 ½ tsp cinnamon in medium bowl; set aside.
8

Roll rounded measuring teaspoonfuls of dough into 2-inch ropes.
9

Place ropes about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets; shape into crescents.
10

Bake 10 to 13 minutes, until golden brown.
11

Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheets.
12

While still warm, roll cookies, a few at a time, in cinnamon-sugar.
13

Cool completely on wire racks.
14

Store loosely covered at room temperature.