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Vanilla crescent cookies with yeast

Name: Vanilla crescent cookies with yeast
Yield: About 60 cookies
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 20 g Fat (shortening); 20 g Fresh yeast; 500 g All-purpose flour; 80 g Sugar; 1 packet Vanilla sugar (20 g); to taste Salt; 150–200 ml Sour cream; for dusting Powdered sugar

Vanilla crescent cookies made with yeast and sour cream, chilled overnight, then baked and dusted with powdered sugar. Makes about 60.

Slovak cuisine · Christmas cookies and baking · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 15 min
Temperature: 180 °C (350 °F)
Servings: About 60 cookies
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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Vanilla crescent cookies made with yeast dough are among the sweets baked for Christmas in many homes. The dough, made with all-purpose flour, melted fat, fresh yeast, sugar, and sour cream, is prepared a day ahead and refrigerated overnight. The next day, simply roll it out to about 1 mm thick, cut it into triangles, roll them into crescents, bake until golden, and dust with powdered sugar. You can also bake them any time of year rather than waiting for the holidays.

Ingredients

Fat (shortening) 20 g
Fresh yeast 20 g
All-purpose flour 500 g
Sugar 80 g
Vanilla sugar (20 g) 1 packet
Salt to taste
Sour cream 150–200 ml
Powdered sugar for dusting

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Instructions

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Melt the fat and mix with the yeast. Add the flour, sugar, salt, and vanilla sugar, then gradually add the sour cream while mixing slowly.
Knead into a smooth dough and let rest in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, roll out the dough to approximately 1 mm thick. Cut into triangles and roll each one up from the wide end to form a crescent. Preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F) and place the crescents on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake the crescents for about 15 minutes, until golden, then dust with powdered sugar.

Tip: First cut the rolled-out dough into equal-width strips, then cut those into triangles so the crescents are the same size and bake evenly. Let them cool before dusting with powdered sugar.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 44 kcal
Protein: 1.0 g
Carbohydrates: 8.3 g
of which sugars: 1.9 g
Fat: 0.8 g
of which saturates: 0.3 g
Fiber: 0.3 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Vanilkové rožteky z droždiového cesta na Vianoce