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 going to do by hand. I'm going to add a cup of finely minced pecans

And then I'm just going to come in here with my hands, and the heat from my hands

is going to 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. Alright, that completes our pan. Now I'm going to put these into a

a preheated 275 degree oven, and 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. 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