The Food Network's Twelve Days of Cookies

[thewayne]

Every week day they email a different cookie recipie. Friday was Day Seven, Mexican Wedding Cookies. There are some pretty good stuff there, I need to dig into my archive and see if they're the same dozen as they sent out last year.

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[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

I wonder if those are polvorones. I first came across them in Spain, fell in love, hit the net for recipes and found no two were alike except in the very broadest terms. I made three different recipes of them for the party last week, of which only one (1) resembled the cookie I remembered. The other two versions evidently put off enough people that I still have bunches of the *good* recipe cookies left over, and am still enjoying them thankyouverymuch. I'd be curious what *your* recipe is like; would you mind sharing it my direction?? ;)

No prob!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Mexican Wedding Cookies
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Whip up simple pecan cookies that are perfect for any special occasion or holiday.

Recipe Summary
Yield: 2 1/2 dozen cookies
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Ease of preparation: Easy

Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, plus more for coating baked cookies
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting hands
1 cup pecans, chopped into very small pieces

Instructions
Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar at low speed until smooth. Beat in the vanilla. At low speed gradually add the flour. Mix in the pecans with a spatula. With floured hands, take out about 1 tablespoon of dough and shape into a crescent. Continue to dust hands with flour as you make more cookies. Place onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 40 minutes. When cool enough to handle but still warm, roll in additional confectioners' sugar. Cool on wire racks.