Hi cookie eating friends (that should include most everyone)– As Joanne (my energetic & bright 2nd grade teacher friend) and I were walking to pick up our students after lunch, I noticed a cookie recipe clutched in her hand. ”What’s that?,” I asked. She described these tender, buttery pecan cookies. So I immediately solicited a copy of the recipe. And made a batch soon as I hit my kitchen today after school. Joanne was right. They are delectable.
PECAN SANDIES
3/4 cup butter (1 1/2 stick)
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup pecans, chopped to bits
more powdered sugar to dust them after they’re baked
With an electric mixer, combine the butter and 3/4 cup powdered sugar until it’s a fluffy, creamy combination. This will take longer than you think it should. Persevere. Then add in the flour and pecans. Keep mixing until it combines into a dough. This also takes a while. Be patient. When the dough combines into marble size chunks. Take it by spoonfuls and roll little balls about 1 1/2″ in size. Line them up on the cookie sheet, sprayed with cooking spray, and then smash them flat with the bottom of a glass.
Bake them up at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes until they just start to brown about the edges. Remove them from the cookie sheet and set them on a cooling rack. Dust them with powdered sugar shaken through a sieve.
These cookies are simple, just 4 ingredients, but have a lovely flavor. Buttery and pecan filled, best eaten with a mug of hot tea and a good book.
I have eaten a few pacna sandies before but this recipe looks like a real winner! A must make some time later ! Thanks! Beautiful to gaze at too!
Yummm!
These are absolutely beautiful! So happy to have found your site!
They were scrumptious! Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to make a batch of my own.
I can’t wait to try these! They will be the perfect treat for us while we huddle by the fire. The next couple days here in Indiana are going to be frigid. Thank you for sharing.