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.

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