Lemon Bonbons

Submitted by BelleTerre

"My favorite Aunt found this in one of her cookbooks, so we tried it. Nice little cookie for baby showers or wedding showers."

 

• Ready In: 27mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 36-48 cookies

ingredients

• Cookie dough

• 1 cup butter, no substitutions
• 1⁄3 cup powdered sugar
• 3⁄4 cup cornstarch
• 1 1⁄4 cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup fine chopped pecans

• Lemon glaze

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

directions

1. Chop pecans very fine.
2. Scatter on a cookie tray that has been lined with wax paper.
3. Cream butter with sugar.
4. Stir in cornstarch and flour. Mix well.
5. Form dough into 1 inch balls.
6. Press balls into the pecans with the bottom of a glass that has been dipped in sugar .
7. Transfer cookies to another cookie tray 2 inches apart.
8. Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 350°F.
9. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
10. Mix glaze. Will be thin enough to drizzle over cookies.
11. When cool glaze cookies with the lemon icing.