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Mexican Wedding Cookies

By Paula Deen

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Mexican Wedding Cookies
17 reviews • 0 questions

Difficulty: Easy

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 10 minutes

Servings: 10

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups plus more for dusting hands all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup plus more for coating baked cookies confectioner's sugar
  • 1 cup at room temperature butter
  • 1 cup chopped into very small pieces pecans

Directions

Preheat the oven to 275 °F.

Line cookies sheets with parchment paper. Using an electric mixer at low speed, cream the butter and confectioner’s sugar at low speed until smooth. Beat in the vanilla. At low speed gradually add the flour. Mix in the pecans with a spatula. With floured hands, take out about 1 tablespoon of dough and shape into a crescent. Continue to dust hands with flour as you make more cookies. Place onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 40 minutes. Roll in additional confectioner’s sugar while still warm. Cool completed, on wire racks. Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.

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August 01, 2021
Ese ula, I had a family request for these and checked for the recipe in my late mom's secret filebox. Yep, it was there but it looked a little sparse to me(my mom's recipes oft are and she took many secrets with her when she left)! I came here to compare yours(you're my 2nd goto recipe resource) and lo and behold, your recipe is identical to hers! Amazing(my mom, you and this recipe!) I remember helping mom make these as a child. Good times!

Katie

August 17, 2017
I LOVE these cookies!!! I make them for family events occasionally. I recently was asked to make "those really good cookies with the pecans and confectioners sugar" recently for my cousin's wedding. I had to laugh when I said, "you mean the Mexican Wedding Cookies?" They have become a family favorite.

Marci Hucul

November 21, 2013
Paula. Thank you for your recipes. My family loves your baking. I can not eat any because I am a very brittle diabetic. Would appreciate any recipes you could send for me. We love you and all that you stand for. Myou are so family oriented and what a pleasure to watch

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