King Ranch Polvorones

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons butter-nut flavoring
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups finely chopped young pecans
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 pre heat oven to 325 degrees. cream butter, sugar, butter-nut flavoring until fluffy. sift flour and salt and add to creamed mixture, blending throughly. add young pecans and mix well. shape into 1 inch balls and place on baking pan. bake at 325 for 20 minutes. do not brown. cool, then roll in powdered sugar. for chocolate cookies: add 1/4 cup cocoa to the flour mixture and use vanilla instead of the butter-nut flavoring.