desserts and cookies, and stuff like that. I figured since it's closing in

on Christmas, I would show you how to make some Christmas cookies. I like

to make Christmas cookies every year, and I take pretty little bags of them

to my neighbors. There's an unwritten understanding that if I bring them

cookies once a year, they will not rob my house. It works out really well

for everyone. I am going to show you how to make Mexican wedding cookies

today, so ole.

Super-simple; you just got some butter and I'm going to cream that together

with some powdered sugar. I'm going to save this wrapper to grease my

cookie sheet later. I'm just going to do 1/4 -cup of powdered sugar, but I've

got extra here for rolling the cookies in. I'm just going to cream this

together. If you have a mixer, you can use that, but whatever. It's old-

timey to do it with a wooden spoon. That looks good. I'm going to add a

little bit of vanilla, about a teaspoon. Look at the daredevil that I am; I

didn't even measure that.

This recipe's cool because it doesn't have any eggs in it, so if you're

allergic to eggs, this is the cookie for you. I'm going to add the flour

and the nuts, and mix that together, and then we're ready to cook. I got

these pecans that you could grind them in a . . . you could grind them in a

food processor or a blender, but I like to chop them by hand because then

you end up with little pieces of varying sizes. You can see this is really

stiff, and now I'm going to go ahead and put the nuts in.

At this point, it might just be easiest to use my hands and get those

little nuts evenly distributed. Wicked. Now I'm going to roll some balls.

I'm going to use this from before, like that, to grease this cookie sheet.

Pretty ingenious if I say so myself. Now you can see it. Then you just want

to pinch off balls about an inch around. It should be just the right size

to eat in one bite. That's how I like them anyway. Last one, but poopsies;

I need to rearrange a little bit and cram these last 3 on there. Let's see.

It's like that magic shell game. Everybody's happy. Now I'm going to put

these in the oven for about 15 minutes. We'll see.

Cookies are done, man. You just want them just a tiny bit brown on the

bottom. Now I'll put them on the cooling rack. They fell through. They're

tiny. Cool off little cookies, cool off. These little babies are cooled off

now. I've got my bowl of powdered sugar, and I'm just going to gently toss

them around in that, and then put them on a plate. Super easy. They look

like little snowballs. Now I will eat one for you, for me too. They're so

light and crispy, and they get powdered sugar everywhere. It's very

festive.

Try these when you make Christmas cookies for your neighbors and then maybe

they won't rob you. Merry Christmas.