1 ½ cup plain flour

½ cup melted Smen or butter

2 tbsp icing sugar

1 pinch of baking powder

Milk

For the filling:

1 ½ cup ground almonds

½ cup sugar

Orange blossom water

A pinch of cinnamon

Food coloring

For the glaze:

1 egg beaten

 

Mix flour and sugar and add the butter. Rub with your hands to impregnate the dry ingredients. Add the baking powder and then add the milk slowly and continue mixing until your dough comes together. Knead the dough until smooth and elastic. Let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 min. To prepare the filling, mix the dry ingredients together, add the food coloring of your choice until you get the desired color and pour slowly the orange blossom water until you can roll the filling into a ball. Set aside. Preheat your oven to 350F. Roll out the dough and cut it into triangles. Using a sharp knife or a pizza cutter, make three vertical incisions in the center of each triangle. Take small pieces of the almond paste and roll them between your hands into thin “sausages”, the length of the base of your triangle. Place these in the base of the triangle and roll the dough over until you obtain a cigar like shape. The almond paste will be inside the dough like you see in the pictures. Bend your “cigar” slightly to shape it as a crescent shape. Brush them lightly with the beaten egg and bake for 12-16 min, until lightly colored. Let cool completely on a wire rack before serving.