RECIPE: REC: Melt Aways---so easy--no mixer needed---bakes in about 7 minutes...

[charlie]

Melt Aways

Yield: 30 cookies

1 cup Unsalted butter, softened

1/2 cup Confectioners' sugar, sifted

1 teaspoon Vanilla

2 1/4 cups Cake flour, sifted

1/4 teaspoon Salt

3/4 cup Pecans, chopped

Confectioners' sugar

1. Heat oven to 450℉. 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.

4. Transfer to cooling rack. While still warm (but not hot), use a sifter to sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar.

 

[marilynfl]

charlie, have you ever tried Marbalet's *keylime meltaways* it's one of my very

favorite delicate cookies...and so simple too.
I only use fresh keylime since it's not around that often.
Can't say what it would be like with the bottled stuff.

http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=217707

 

[charlie]

Thanks you M---they are on my Christas cookie list

 

[marilynfl]

charlie, rather than toss the cookies, I leave them on the cooling tray and heavily sift

the powdered sugar over them. They end up more evenly coated that way.

 

[charlie]

I was thinking about doing the same---delicate cookies tossed in a bag didn't seem like a good idea.

 

[marilynfl]

Can you get fresh keylimes? They're in the stores down here now.

 

[charlie]

Duh--I was just at Ingles and didn't look

 

[marilynfl]

Let me know...I can always "flat rate" some to you.