Pecan Shortbread Melts

By d_s1

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/3 cup icing sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
• superfine sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cream butter in a large bowl. Blend in icing sugar and vanilla. Sift flour and salt into creamed mixture. Blend using wooden spoon. Fold in pecans. Shape dough into small balls, the size of dates, and dredge in superfine sugar. Arrange on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 25-35 minutes. If desired, broil 2 minutes or until lightly brown. When done, transfer to wire racks and let cool.

If you don't have superfine sugar you can use a blender to grind up regular sugar, or you can just use regular sugar as is.