FFTT and A Couple More Girls

First of all, I've been absent from Food For Thought Thursday for a few weeks but I'm back to share some food with you. Like everyone else, I've been busy making Christmas cookies. My kids are easy to do gifts for at Christmas....all they ever want is a box of Mocha Nut cookies! So this year I've made three batches of these cookies, one for my son, one for my daughter and one for us.

They're fairly simple and easy to make, 

which is a good thing since I have to do so many.

This is basically all you need!

Mocha Nut Cookies

1 cup softened butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream these together. Then add:

2 teaspoons instant coffee

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 3/4 cups sifted flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix this together and then add:

2 cups finely chopped pecans 

(I use my food processor to get them very finely chopped)

Refrigerate the dough for a couple of hours.
 Shape into 1 inch balls, place on cookie sheet and bake at 325º for 15 minutes.
 Cool and then roll in powdered sugar.

Note: these cookies are very fragile when you first remove them from the cookie sheet but after they cool a bit they're much less crumbly and easier to handle. I send these through the mail (to Alaska and Delaware) and they arrive safe and sound. I'm sorry I don't have a picture of the finished cookies because they're all gone!

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And now here are two more winter girls I did yesterday....

I don't know how many more of these I'll make. I have so much fun with them but I should be making something else or I'll be overloaded with girls in hats and scarves!