Cocoons

Total Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1 cup pecans, finely chopped- i like mine to be almost ground
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar, for coating cookies

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 275.
• 2 cream the butter and sugar until smooth.
• 3 add vanilla, combine.
• 4 add the flour, combine.
• 5 mix in the pecans.
• 6 scoop out 1 tablespoon of dough, i use a cookie/ice cream scoop, shape into into a cocoon- about 2" by 1/2".
• 7 place the cookies on cookies sheet, you can put them fairly close together as they do not rise or spread very much.i always use parchment paper on my cookies sheets.
• 8 bake about 45 minutes, you don't really want them to be brown.
• 9 while the cookies are baking, prepare the powdered sugar. place some in a large bowl or container, then as you take the cookies out of the oven, layer them with powdered sugar in the bowl i just leave them in the powdered sugar until they cool.
• 10 dig them out and tap the sugar off- this is messy but fun- i like a thick layer of sugar on mine and sifting the sugar over the cookies doesn't get them like i want.
• 11 the ones you don't eat right away keep well in an airtight container.