Chocolate Almond Crescent Cookies

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (15 ounce) package any brand ready-made pie crusts (2 crusts) or 2 pie crusts, your favorite recipe for
• 1 cup ground almonds
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 3 -4 teaspoons milk

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350º.
• 2 in a small bowl, combine ground almonds, powdered sugar, and almond extract.
• 3 stir in egg .
• 4 melt chocolate in a small dish and stir into almond mixture, mixing in well.
• 5 allow crust to come to room temperature (or if you can't wait to get started, heat for about 20 seconds on defrost in your microwave).
• 6 unfold/ unroll both pie crusts as directed on package (if you are making your own pie crusts, form both of them in a round circle measuring 11" across).
• 7 place one pie crust on top of the other (this is just to simplifiy the amount of cutting you will do, you can do it one layer at a time if you like) and place on cutting board.
• 8 cut crusts in half, in half again making 4 sections, in half again, making 8 wedges, and then each of the eight wedges, cut in thirds, creating 24 wedges.
• 9 place about 1/2 teaspoon of almond filling at the wide end of each wedge.
• 10 if you chose to stack the crusts, roll the top layer first, roll up starting with widest end of wedge, rolling to opposite point.
• 11 place point side down on ungreased cookie sheet.
• 12 repeat with second layer.
• 13 these cookies can be placed quite close to each other as the will shrink just a little while baking.
• 14 i usually have 24 cookies on one cookie sheet.
• 15 bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until very light golden brown.
• 16 remove from cookie sheet to a wire cooling rack that has waxed paper underneath.
• 17 cool completely.
• 18 in a small bowl, make glaze by mixing powdered sugar, almond extract and stirring in milk gradually to reach desired glazing consistency (i like mine a little thicker).
• 19 drizzle glaze over cooled cookies.