Crescent Melting Moments

Name: Crescent Melting Moments
Yield: Makes about 6 dozen cookies
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, Rice Krispies cereal; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter cut into 16 pieces and softened; 3 tablespoons, heavy cream; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/4 cups (5 ounces; 142 grams), cake flour; 1/4 cup (1 1/4 ounces; 35 grams), cornstarch; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 2/3 cup (2 2/3 ounces; 76 grams), confectioners' sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2011

Desserts or Baked Goods

We searched high and low to find the formula for these meltingly tender butter cookies. Was the solution in the cereal aisle?

SERVESMakes about 6 dozen cookies

TIME1¾ hours, plus 1 hour chilling and 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These delicate butter cookies literally melt in your mouth thanks to the generous amount of cornstarch in the dough. Unfortunately, the cornstarch leaves behind a chalky residue with each bite. After settling on the maximum amount of cornst...

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