Mexican Wedding Cookie

And now I want to move y'all on down to the dessert that I'm fixing for y'all today

Now this is called a Mexican wedding cookie. It's a very simple cookie. It takes very few ingredients

I'm going to start with two sticks of butter. I'm going to add half a cup of powdered sugar

I'm going to add one and three-fourths cup of all-purpose flour. And a teaspoon of vanilla

and we're just going to beat these together until they're smooth. This cookie has been given more names than any other cookie

People everywhere have a different name for this wonderful, rich cookie. All right, I'm going to turn this up a little bit

I think I've got it where I'm not going to spray myself with flour

All right, now the rest I'm gonna do by hand. I'm gonna add a cup of finely minced pecans

And then I'm just gonna come in here with my hands and the heat from my hands is gonna finish

softening that butter up. See how it's already sticking together? Now, you can make this cookie

in a lot of different shapes. You can make them in fingers. You can make them in balls

but today I'm going to make these in the shape of a crescent. And you just start off by giving

them the shape of a finger and then give it a little twist and you got a crescent And it really doesn matter how you shape these They delicious Any shape you can get them I

remember my grandmother Paul making these so often and grandma would make them in

different shapes depending on the mood she was in. All right that completes our

pan. Now I'm gonna put these into a preheated 275 degree oven and we're

We're gonna let them bake for about 40 minutes. The reason we're gonna bake them so long

is because they're a very dense cookie. They're kind of a heavy cookie

All right, so our oven is preheated. It's set on 275 degrees

And we're gonna let those bake for about 40 minutes. And I've got some in the other oven that's been baking

and they should be ready, and they are. You don't want this cookie to get too dark

You want it to be just a nice light brown. All right, now to finish this cookie off

I've got some powdered sugar here. And while these are warm, we're just going to pick them up

and just roll them in powdered sugar. And that's how we get them sweet

So I'd be willing to bet that if you had a sweet tooth

that you could go to the cabinet and find all of these ingredients. right in your own pantry

Nobody will know that I slipped one. I don't think I'm doing a good job of slipping this cookie

I think it's going to wind up all over me