Chocolate Pecan Balls

The only reason that I am posting so late is because I have not yet taken a picture of my cookies. I don't think I'm going to get a picture tonight so I will just add it when I get it (maybe tomorrow!)

You see, I started the batter last night because I looked ahead at my recipe and I realized that I wasn't going to get off as easy as I did for the last few recipes. Plus, I needed to chill the dough for at least 3 hours to overnight. The dough was simple enough; however, it had very little wet ingredients (1 c. butter and 2 egg yolks) and like Angie, I only have a hand mixer. It couldn't handle the amount of dry ingredients that needed to be added so I had to go old school and put some effort into hand mixing it. Into the fridge and off to bed!

This morning I figured I had this cookie in the bag since I had a big bowl of dough that had been chilled all night. All I had to do was form little balls, roll into powdered sugar, bake and roll again into powdered sugar. I figured that I could fit a million of these little balls on a cookie sheet and get them all in the oven at once. It didn't quite work out that way. The dough was very dry and crumbly, almost like old playdough so it took some work to form it into balls. Then I rolled each ball in a bowl of powdered sugar...what a mess! I was wearing black pants, too! I spent about an hour forming and rolling balls and I had only made it through half of the dough. I got tired so I decided to bake what I had and do the rest later.

Well, it's later (10:30 p.m.) and I still haven't rolled the rest of the balls! The ones I did make were DELICIOUS and worth all the work. I bagged up all the cookies I made (except for the few I tasted) for my friends before I took any pictures. I hope to get the rest baked tomorrow and post a beautiful picture that captures how delicious these cookies taste. Until then...shelly