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Mexican Wedding Cookies

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This favorite Christmas cookie is known by many names but it's the round one with nuts covered in powder sugar.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup(s) pecan pieces
1 cup(s) butter (unsalted) - better butter=better cookies
1/4 cup(s) sugar (powdered)
1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract - pure, not imitation
2 cup(s) flour (all-purpose)
1/4 teaspoon(s) salt (iodized)
1 cup(s) sugar (powdered) - for dusting at the end
Steps:
-Preheat the oven to 350 degrees for toasting the pecans.
-Toast the nuts for approximately 7 minutes and then cool.
-Grind the nuts with 3 tablespoons of the flour in a processor until fine.
-Cream the butter with the sugar until well blended; mix in the vanilla.
-Mix in the flour and salt to combine; add the nuts.
-Chill for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
-Preheat oven to 400 degrees for the cookies.
-Divide and roll into 1-inch balls.
-Place on an ungreased sheet pan 1 inch apart and bake for 8-10 minutes at 400 degrees.
-They will be a light golden color and a little soft still.
-Roll in the powdered sugar while warm and place on a wire rack to cool.
-Once they cool completely, roll again in the sugar.
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