(from Nigella Lawson's Feast, 2004 - This is a veganified version)
Makes 24. This might feed... 4 hungry people! Or 12 polite ones.
Ingredients:
1.5 C shelled walnuts
1/4 C confectioners sugar + some to sprinkle everywhere
1 stick + 1 T soft margarine/other vegan buttery spread
3/4 C all-purpose flour
pinch salt
Directions:
-Preheat oven to 325 degF.
-Toast walnuts in a dry frying pan until aromatic, then process until pulverized.
- Take out the nuts and add loosened sugar, soft butter, and process; add flour and salt and process again. If your food processor isn't humongous, you might have to break up the ingredients into 2 batches (I did).
- Scrape down sides and add nuts; pulse to mix, then tip out the dough.
- Mold with your hands into half moons: flour your hands, take just 1T of dough, and roll into sausages; flatten slightly and curl into a crescent. Put crescents on a baking sheet.
- Cook crescents for 25 mins, checking at 15 mins. Let sit on baking sheet for a bit before transferring to cooling rack.
- Cover thickly w/ confectioners' sugar; leave to cool.
