How to Make Wedding Cake Cookies - Powdered Sugar Cookies Recipe

unsalted butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil reduces saturated fat while still providing moisture.

pecans

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts provide similar texture and flavor, while sunflower seeds are less expensive.

Cream the butter in a mixing bowl.

Add 4 rounded tablespoons of powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 1 cup of ground pecans to the bowl.

Mix until it forms a dough.

Refrigerate the dough to firm it up before rolling into balls.

Using a cookie scoop, scoop out the dough and pinch off about a fourth of it to shape into a ball.

If the dough is too cold and loose, warm it in your hands to shape it better.

Store the formed balls in a container if not baking immediately, or place them on a cookie sheet.

Space the dough balls a couple of inches apart on the cookie sheet and slightly flatten the bottoms to prevent rolling.

Preheat the oven to 250°F (121°C) and bake the cookies for about 40 minutes, checking for a golden brown bottom.

If not brown enough, return the cookies to the oven for an additional 10 minutes.

Dust the hot cookies with powdered sugar in a Ziploc bag, tossing gently to coat.

Lay the cookies back on the paper to cool and dust them again once cooled.

Prepare a container for storage by layering wax paper and dusting the cookies again before stacking them.

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