The Best Mexican Wedding Cookie Polvorones Recipe

You Say Mexican Wedding Cookies, I Say Polvorones

WEBDec 20, 2010 · Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Using a food processor, blender, nut mill or knife, finely chop the pecans. Add the powdered …

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1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Using a food processor, blender, nut mill or knife, finely chop the pecans. Add the powdered sugar to the processor or blender (if that's what you used) and grind or chop. If done by hand, just mix together.
3. Mix the flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Drop in the chunks of butter and the vegetable shortening in teaspoon amounts. Begin to mix with your hands, until the butter and vegetable shortening are mixed in with the flour and salt. The mixture will turn into a coarse dough, with chunks of butter and shortening mixed throughout.
4. Add in the sugar and pecan mixture and work it all in. Crack the egg into the mixture thoroughly combine, using your hands. In less than a minute, the dough should be soft and malleable enough to be turned into a ball. Don't knead more than necessary, you just want it to come together into a homogeneous mass.
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5. Preheat oven to 350°F. Place pecans on a baking sheet or toaster oven tray and bake for about 8 minutes, or until lightly brown and fragrant. Let them cool completely.
6. Place toasted pecans and 2 tablespoons of the flour into your food processor or blender and process until they are finely ground. Set aside.
7. In a large bowl using a stand or hand mixer, add butter and 1/4 cup powdered sugar. Beat together until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
8. Beat in the vanilla extract, then add the remaining flour and salt and beat until combined. Stir in the ground nuts.

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