Buttery pecan biscuits flavoured with vanilla, baked until lightly golden and finished with a dusting of icing sugar.
Ingredients
250 grams butter
3/4 cup castor sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
Pinch of salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup maizena
2 and 1/2 cup flour ( plus minus)
1 cup chopped pecans
Icing sugar for dusting
Method:
Cream butter until light.
Add sugar and cream well.
Add essence and cream.
Add dry ingredients and make into soft dough.
Add pecans and mix well.
Make into a small ball and press with folk.
Bake for 18 minutes at 180 degrees.
When cool, cover in icing sugar.