Mexican Wedding Balls

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter

  softened (2 sticks)
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 1 cup finely diced pecans

  (measure after chopping)
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

  for dusting cookies after baking

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350º.
• 2 With electric mixer, beat butter and powdered sugar.
• 3 Add vanilla and salt.
• 4 Add flour and nuts; stir into sugar mixture.
• 5 Refrigerate until dough is firm.
• 6 Roll dough into 1-inch balls.
• 7 Place on ungreased cookie sheets. (see note below).
• 8 Bake 15 minutes until lightly browned.
• 9 Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks after 9 minutes of baking time (if baking
  more than one cookie sheet at a time).
• 10 While hot, roll cookies in powdered sugar.
• 11 Cool on a rack then roll cookies again in powdered sugar to coat. 
• 12 Place cookies on wire cooling rack to cool completely .

Nutrition Info