Step 1

Preheat the oven to 160ºC and line 2 large baking trays with baking paper.

Step 2

Grind the almonds in a food processor. Add the butter, flour and vanilla (or caster) sugar and pulse gently until the mixture comes together. You can also do this by hand.

Step 3

Roll the dough into small thumb sized rolls bend into crescent shapes. Place on trays and bake for 30 - 40 minutes or until pale and golden.

Step 4

Make vanilla icing sugar by sifting together the icing sugar and ground vanilla powder. When the biscuits have cooled, roll them in the vanilla icing sugar to generously coat.

Step 5

Store in an airtight container, sprinkled with any remaining icing sugar. Makes 60.