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Mexican Wedding Cookies

Mexican Wedding Cookies Ingredients: nuts, pecans sugars, granulated salt, table butter, without salt vanilla extract wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched Directions: Put pecans, 1 cup of the sugar and salt in...

Mexican Wedding Cookies

Ingredients:
nuts, pecans
sugars, granulated
salt, table
butter, without salt
vanilla extract
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched

Directions:
Put pecans, 1 cup of the sugar and salt in food processor and blend until nuts are ground fine.
Cut the butter into tablespoon-size pieces and add it to nut mixture with processor running.
Process until smooth.
Add vanilla extract.
Add flour and continue blending, using pulse mechanism of processor.
Scrape dough into a bowl.
Cover tightly and refrigerate one hour.
3.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Scoop dough with tablespoon and form 1-inch balls by rolling dough between palms (lightly flour hands, if necessary).
Place balls 1 1/2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 15 minutes or until the cookies barely begin to brown.
Cool for 2 minutes.
Use small spatula to lift cookies from sheets.
Roll the cookies in the remaining sugar.