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Melt Aways

Source of Recipe

This 1989 first-place recipe comes from Chris Merrill of Elk Grove Village.


Recipe Introduction

The cookies are slightly sweet and very buttery, so they melt in your mouth. from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 14, 1989

List of Ingredients

1 cup unsalted softened butter
1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1 confectioners' sugar



Recipe

Preparation time: 20 minutes Baking time: 7 minutes per batch

1. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Combine butter, confectioners' sugar and
vanilla in mixing bowl.

2. Sift flour and salt together and gradually stir into butter
mixture. Stir in chopped pecans.

3. Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake
until peaks are very light brown, about 7 minutes. Transfer to
cooling rack. While still warm (but not hot), use a sifter to
sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar.