Melt Aways
Source: Chicago Tribune Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest 12-14-89
Makes 30

This 1989 first-place recipe comes from Chris Merrill of Elk Grove Village. The cookies are slightly sweet and very buttery, so they melt in your mouth.

1 cup unsalted softened butter
1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans
confectioners' sugar

Heat oven to 450 degrees. Combine butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla in mixing bowl.

Sift flour and salt together and gradually stir into butter mixture. Stir in chopped pecans.

Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until peaks are very light brown, about 7 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack. While still warm (but not hot), use a sifter to sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar.