Vanillekipferl - Vanilla Crescents, a Christmas cookie recipe from Gourmetpedia

Ingredients

• - 60 g / 2 oz. ground almonds
• - 100 g / 3 1/2 oz. cold butter
• - 40 g / 6 1/2 tbsp. icing sugar
• - 1 egg yolk
• - The pulp scraped from 2 vanilla beans
• - 330 ml / 2 1/3 cups flour
• - A pinch of salt
• - 100-150 g / 1 to 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
• - vanilla powder