Grand Lady’s Cinnamon Cookies

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living- Lady Helen Hardy

Categories: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
  • 3 cups finely chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 to 3 minutes or until light and Remove top sheet of parchment, and invert dough onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Remove parchment paper, and press pecans evenly into dough.
  2. Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, and cut cookies (while dough is hot) into 3 × 1 1/2-inch rectangles, using a pizza cutter. Cool on a wire rack.

  3. makes 3 dozen

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