| Yield: | About 4 dozen small cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly grease 2 baking sheets. In the bowl of a mixer, combine the butter and vanilla. Add 1/2 cup of the sugar, then slowly add the flour and pecans and mix just until combined. Use your hands to roll the dough into balls about 3/4-inch in diameter, and arrange them on the baking sheets. Bake 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown. Meanwhile, spread the remaining confectioners’ sugar out on a plate. When the cookies are done, remove from the oven, let cool 3 to 5 minutes, and then roll each cookie in the sugar until coated, letting each rest in the sugar for a minute to absorb it. Let cool completely on wire racks, then store in airtight containers.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 48 servings |
| Calories | 94 |
| Total Fat | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Carbohydrates | 11 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 6 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Sodium | 1 mg |
Reviews
I’ve been making these for years. My family expects them. I ALWAYS add a pinch of salt. We moved this summer and couldn’t find the small piece of yellow paper that had this recipe wrote on it.. thank goodness for the Foodnetwork .. Merry Christmas
I’m not gonna lie- these were not at all what I was expecting… but I made them for my cousin’s Hungarian exchange student, and he loved them! Personally, I thought they were pretty good too. The recipe was simple, fast, and only required ingredients that I already had. Thanks a ton!
Really good cookies. I went looking for something to use some pecans I got for another recipe I opted not to make and was really happy with the result. Very well received by all the people who tried them.
My family loves these easy cookies. My 9 yr old grandson helped me roll them out and he had a ball.. Everyone says they are addictive. I made them for Christmas and with 5 days to go, will have to make another batch before the 25th…
FANTASTIC. Easy. Quick. Melt in your mouth. I used margarine instead of butter and could not taste any difference. Also, I noticed if you roll them in the powdered sugar while they are still hot, you may have to do it twice.
I had a lot of pecans left over and was looking for a recipe in which I can use them. Then I came upon this wonderful recipe! The cookies were absolutely delicious, although I made a couple of minor adjustments. I used brown sugar inside the cookie instead of confectioners sugar, and I kept the pecans coarsely chopped for an added crunch. When I tried them, I also wished I split the dough in two and added bourbon to one of the batches. I will definitely do it when I make them again—which will be very soon!
I made these last Christmas as gifts and my family devoured them like crazy! I was asked (Actually, the words were “You better…” lol to make them again this year. So, this recipe is definitely a keeper!
These turned out great and I will definitely be making these again and again, especially around the holidays! I found Fisher’s pecan cookie pieces, which really helped with the time it would have taken to finely chop all the pecans.
These truly are melt-in-your-mouth! Easy and would be delicious with tea or coffee. I did what another reader did, rolled them in powdered sugar when they came out of the oven and then again when they were cooled. I had to hide them from my kids!
Great, melt-in-your-mouth flavor. Everyone loves them and they are super-easy to make.