Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1998
Superfine sugar and a combination of finely chopped and ground nuts yield tender, delicate, nutty cookies.
For a nut crescent cookie recipe with a melt-in-your-mouth quality, we tried three kinds of sugar in the batter: granulated, confectioners', and superfine. The last resulted in just what we wanted: cookies that melted in our mouths. In dete...