Mexican Wedding Cookies

Five ingredients and 20 minutes later, your oven is baking these sweet, melt-in-your-mouth celebration cookies. Eat now or forever hold your peace.

Yield: about 4 dozen or 24 servings, two cookies each

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar, divided
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup finely chopped Planters Pecans

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Beat butter, 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar and the vanilla extract in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually add flour and pecans, beating on low speed after each addition until well blended.
4. Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
5. Place, 1 1/2 inches apart, on ungreased baking sheets.
6. Bake for 14 to 15 minutes or until bottoms of cookies are lightly browned.
7. Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheets.
8. Roll warm cookies in remaining 1/2 cup powdered sugar until evenly coated; place on wire racks.
9. Cool completely.
10. Store in tightly covered container at room temperature.

Notes

Use a blender or food processor to finely chop the pecans. Just be careful not to over-process them or you'll end up with nut butter!

Nutrition

Per serving: Calories 160 Total fat 11g Saturated fat 4g Cholesterol 20mg Sodium 55mg Carbohydrate 14g Dietary fiber 1g Sugars 5g Protein 2g

Vitamin A 6% DV Vitamin C 0% DV Calcium 0% DV Iron 4% DV

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Kraft Heinz Company