- ½ cup butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ cup finely chopped pecans
- Pinch salt
- Pinch of ground nutmeg
Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, beat butter with ¼ cup powdered sugar until fluffy; stir in vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine flour, pecans, salt, and nutmeg; stir into butter mixture. Shape 1 tablespoon of dough at a time into 2-inch logs. Taper the ends and curve the logs slightly to form a crescent. Put on prepared pans.
Bake in preheated oven about 15 minutes, until cookies are golden beneath. Remove from oven and let cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes. Put remaining ½ cup powdered sugar in a shallow bowl and put cookies into the sugar, a few at a time to coat. Cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle remaining sugar over the cookies.