Chocolate Cookbook

Ingredients

1 cup butter - softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups flour - sifted
1 cup pecans - finely chopped
1 (5 3/4 oz) pkg chocolate kisses
confectioner’s sugar

Directions

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla extract until they are very light and fluffy. Add the sifted flour and pecans, blending well. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill the dough for about an hour. Remove the foil wrappers from the chocolate kisses. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Shape the dough around the kisses, using about 1 tablespoon of dough for each chocolate kiss. Roll to make a ball. Cover kiss completely. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 12 minutes until set but not brown. Remove from cookie sheet onto a white paper towel and cool slightly. Roll in confectioners sugar while cookie is still war. Cool completely. Roll in confectioners sugar again, if desired.

Makes about 5 dozen.