Easiest Homemade Kourabiedes recipe (Christmas Greek Butter Cookies)

Ingredients

• 250g butter made from cows milk, cold (9 ounces, 1.1 cups) (Lurpak unsalted)
• 150g almonds, roughly chopped or almond slivers, roasted (6 ounces, 1 1/4 cups)
• 50g almonds (whole) or almond slivers, raw (1.8 ounces, 1/4 cups)
• 75g icing sugar (2.7 ounces, 1/2 cups)
• 1 tbsp rose water
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 400g all-purpose (plain) flour (14.2 ounces, 3 1/5 cups)
• lots of icing sugar for powdering