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Maple Pecan Sandies
Melt in your mouth butter, pecan cookies with sweet maple flavor, maple pecan sandies are simple to make and store well - if they last.
Prep Time
1
hour
hour
5
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
15
minutes
minutes
Total Time
1
hour
hour
20
minutes
minutes
Servings
18
cookies
Calories
Author
Marye Audet-White
Ingredients
½
cup
unsalted butter
, softened
½
cup
sugar
1
teaspoons
maple flavoring
1
cups
cake flour
½
cup
finely chopped pecans
, toasted
½
cup
confectioners’
, white sugar, or sugar and cinnamon
Instructions
To Toast Pecans
Chop pecans.
Oil a heavy baking sheet.
Bake at 400F for 5-10 minutes, turning the nuts over with a spatula halfway through.
Check often.
Do not let them burn.
Make Cookies
In a bowl,
cream
together the butter and sugar.
Stir in maple.
Add the flour and pecans.
Mix until
well blended
.
Cover and chill for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Shape dough into crescents. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove from pan to cool on wire racks.
When cookies are cool, roll in the sugar you prefer or leave them plain or dip in white chocolate
Store in an airtight container.