Pecan Cookies (Mexican Wedding Cookies or Polvorones)
This is an easy cookie to make that is made with ground pecans and generously dusted with powdered sugar.Based on a recipe by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking, Bantam Books,1967, pastelitos de boda (Bride's Cookies), p 294.
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr
Course: Desserts - Cookies
Servings: 24cookies
Author: Catherine Christiano
Ingredients
2cupsunbleached flour
1/2cupsifted confectioner's sugar
pinchsalt
1cuppecanschopped fine
1teaspoonvanilla extract
1cupsweet buttersoftened, unsalted margarine substitutes fine
confectioner's sugarfor dusting
Instructions
Place oven racks to divide oven into thirds. Preheat to 350 °F.
In large bowl of stand mixer, combine flour, all dry ingredients. Stir in vanilla. Add butter and mix until mixture is uniform and forms a ball.
Form dough into two equal log shaped cylinders. Cut each into 12 equal pieces. With each piece first form a ball then press to form a patty. Use two cookie sheets. Evenly arrange 12 patties on each cookie sheet. Place cookie sheets in oven. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, rotating pans after 15 minutes. Cookies will be delicately brown when done.
Remove cookies to wire rack to cool. Dust thickly with confectioner's sugar.