mexican bride cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• preheat oven 350 degrees f (150 degrees c).
• mix the flour, sugar, salt, and nuts together in a medium bowl. stir in the vanilla. either with your hands (my favorite way) or with a pastry cutter, work the butter into the flour mixture until it becomes a ball. shape the dough into 24 one inch flat circles, and place on a cookie sheet.
• bake for 30 minutes or until they are lightly browned. after they have cooled on a rack, dust them heavily with confectioners' sugar.