These lemon crescents are bursting of lemon flavor as they contain lemon zest in the dough as well as in the sugar dusting. They are a relative of the famous German vanilla crescents especially popular during Christmas time. I am already starting my Christmas cookie baking and I am going to publish a total of seven cookie recipes and some more articles dealing with typical problems. Usually people already know which Christmas cookies they are going to bake every year, maybe this one will also go on the list. I intentially am going to introduce not the traditional Christmas cookies here, but more unusual ones, such as these lemon crescents. As far as I understand, people like to stick to their list, but are open to try one or two new cookie recipes. So let’s get started.
You may have had enough from cookies, but I don’t care, I decided to blog a last-minute recipe: German hazelnut crescents with five ingredients. This recipe was passed down to me by a lovely lady in Munich. Just as these Heidesand cookies and this Dresdner Eierschecke are recipes from readers, this one has a funny backstory. The German platform Nebenan.de works like a community platform, I got curious when I saw that somebody was asking whether German bakeries in the vicinity sold homemade cookies. I learned that his mother had requested homemade cookies during the season. Since she had recently moved to a nursery home, she couldn’t make them herself anymore. He didn’t dare to make some, so I inquired. One thing let to another and after all I managed to bake these crescents according to his mother’s recipe. Yes, of course she got a batch right away.




