Hey Guys, Meghan Here! Well, we are certainly still in the fall season. Any of you feel that strong wind this morning? My mom had to sit through that from 8am-11:30am for script(a.k.a. our school's selling of gift cards). So, as you may have noticed by the title, we will be taking a break from cakes and be venturing into the land of COOKIES!!!!!!! Also, we'll be keeping up with the present instead of going back to the past. As some of you may know, mostly the ones that come over for Christmas, that my mom makes these powder sugar covered pecan(with all the dough) cookies and they are TO DIE FOR!
But, they're just so good, how do we not get tired of them? SHE ONLY MAKES THEM DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON! Yes, we know that it's only...what? three days after Thanksgiving? But, we (as in Shannon, Kyle, and I) beg and plead ON OUR KNEES for these cookies as soon as possible :) . This is one of my mom's original recipes. Start off by turning whole pecans into finely copped pecans with a food processor by adding them to powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, and flour. Then, leave the dough in the fridge for half an hour so it hardens or when you try and roll them into balls, they'll just fall apart. So, now roll the slightly hardened dough into balls and cook 'em. Then immediately after they're out of the oven roll them in powdered sugar and then again after five minutes. 
The effect of rolling them in the powdered sugar twice is that when you do it immediately, the sugar melts along with the heated butter and gives a melt-in-your-mouth effect and then the extra rolling is just for adding some more flavor! Hope you are all enjoying this peek into my mom's cooking life.And I've seen the comments on my mom's Facebook and I really appreciate them and so does my mom! Have a great week and good luck with the Christmas decorations. Until next week!
