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

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cookies

Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2011

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

SERVES Makes about 6 dozen cookies

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 1 hour chilling and 30 minutes cooling

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