Gazelle ankles, or kaab el ghazal, are crescent-shaped Maghrebi cookies made of flour-based dough filled with almond paste flavored with orange blossom water, sometimes made instead with a date paste filling. Core ingredients include almonds, orange blossom water, flour, sugar, butter and cinnamon. The pastry has a long history in North Africa, mentioned as far back as a 13th-century cookbook by Ibn Razin al-Tujibi, though that earlier version was shaped into rolls rather than crescents. It is especially popular during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, and a French adaptation known as cornes de gazelles is also found in France.
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Gazelle ankles (Arabic: كعب الغزال; French: cornes de gazelle, lit. 'gazelle horns'), also known as kaab el-ghazal, are a traditional cookie of the Maghreb.
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Uses Ingredient: Almond, Infobox: main_ingredient
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