Pecan Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Here is a variation on the walnut cookie recipe i posted earlier.

Pecan Vanilla Cookie

Ingredients
3 cups of pecans
2 sticks of unsalted butter room temp
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/2 powdered sugar
seeds from one vanilla bean
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
1 table spoon water
1/4 teaspoon salt

directions

Preheat the oven to 250 Degrees

Place pecans and 2 table spoons of powdered sugar in the food processor and finely grind them. Pour the pecans in a bowl with the other dry ingredients and whisk together.

In the stand mixer place the butter, vanilla seeds and the sugar and mix until light and fluffy. Next add the vanilla extract and the water. Turning the mixer to low, slowly add the flour mixture. Once combined, roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and flatten with your thumb. Place the cookies 2 inches apart from each other. Now this is a long and slow baking time, the cookies need to bake from 50 to 60 minutes or until light golden brown. Transfer parchment and cookies to cooling rack.

You can dust this cookies like the walnut ones with powdered sugar.

Enjoy Cooking