King Ranch Polvorones

Taken from a bag of King Ranch Young Pecans and placed here for safe keeping to make for a cookie bake at my daughters school.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 2 dozen

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

Directions

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.