Festive Cherryettes

Name: Festive Cherryettes
Ingredients: 3/4 cup shortening; 1/4 cup butter; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup powdered sugar; 2 tablespoons vanilla (Yes Tablespoons); 2 cups flour; 1 cup pecans, finely chopped; 20 candied cherries

8 ingredients

8 steps

Ingredients

3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla (Yes Tablespoons)
2 cups flour
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
20 candied cherries

Directions

1

Blend together shortening, butter, salt, sugar and vanilla.
2

Add flour and pecans and mix into a soft dough.
3

Chill.
4

Preheat oven to 325° F and grease cookie sheets.
5

Measure out level tablespoonfuls of dough and roll between palms of hands to form round balls.
6

Place on greased cookie sheets.
7

Press a little indentation in center in each cookie with a thimble and put half of cherry on top.
8

Bake in preheated 325 oven for 25 minutes.