Craisin Pecan Sandies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla (optional)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)
• 1 pinch lemon zest (optional)
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 1/2-2 cups craisins or 1 1/2-2 cups dried cranberries
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (1 cup broken by hand,1/2 cup chopped into powder)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375.
• 2 sift together flour, baking powder, pecan dust, and salt. set aside.
• 3 cream butter and sugar together in large bowl of electric stand mixer (a hand mixer works as well) and beat until light in color.
• 4 add wet ingredients (egg, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla) and beat to combine.
• 5 put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl.
• 6 stir by hand, the craisins and chopped pecans.
• 7 mold into cookie shape with hands, or use an ice cream scoop and place about 1” to 1 ½ apart on a cookie sheet.
• 8 bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges, rotating cookie sheet halfway through baking time.
• 9 let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven and then move to complete cooling on wire rack.
• 10 depending on cookie size, it yields about 2 -3 dozen.