>----------> PECAN PARTY COOKIES  <----------<

--- COOKIES:
 
1 Cup butter or oleo or shortening, softened
1/2 Cup sugar
2 egg yolks
2 egg whites, unbeaten
1 tsp. vanilla
2 2/3 Cups unsifted flour
1 1/2 Cups finely chopped or ground pecans


Mix fat and sugar until creamy. Add egg yolks and vanilla.
Beat well. Add flour and mix well. 

Dough will be stiff. Divide dough into about 60 one inch
balls. Roll each into in egg whites and then in nuts. 

Place on well greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Press with bottom of glass until about 1/2 inch thick.

BAKE in 350F oven for 5 minutes. Remove from oven. Make
a slight indentation in center of each cookie. Return
to oven and bake 15 minutes longer. 

Remove from baking sheet while still warm. Cool on rack.


--- FROSTING:

1 Cup powdered sugar
1 T. water
Food coloring as desired


Mix powdered sugar and water to make thick frosting. Color 
as desired. FILL indentation in each cookie with frosting.

Makes 5 Dozen cookies

 




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