Basic Cookie Dough - Mexican Wedding Cookies

By AnnaMaria507

Serving = 1 cookie; Calories: 60
Total Fat: 3 g (1 g sat); Carb: 7
Protein: 1; Cholesterol: 8
Sodium: 30

Ingredients

• 1-11/2 cups pecans
• 3 tbsp confectioner's sugar, sifted
• 1-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted
• Basic cookie dough

Details

Servings 96

Preparation

Step 1

1. In food processor with knife blade attached, pulse pecans with 3 tbsp confectioner's sugar until very finely ground.
2. Prepare Basic Cookie Dough, stirring ground pecans into flour mixture before adding butter mixture.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough by rounded measuring tsp into 1" balls. Place balls, 1-1/2" apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet. Bake cookies 13-15 minutes or until bottoms are browned and cookies are light golden. Let stand on cookie sheet 2 minutes to firm up slightly, then transfer to wire rack to cool. repeat with remaining dough.
4. Place confectioner's sugar in pie plate. Roll cooled cookies in sugar to coat, twice if desired.
5. Store cookies, putting waxed paper between layers, in tightly sealed container at room temperature up to 1 week or in freezer up to 3 months.