Sugar Free Pecan Balls

I got this recipe from a friend on the R&R board today, OMG they are devine.  They taste like a Pecan Sandie.  

FYI the mixture looks dry and crumbly when you do it......don't worry when you roll the balls they hold together.  I never follow a recipe exactly, my comments are in parentheses.  You don't have to use the powdered sugar if you don't want too. 


Pecan Balls (by Rachelle)

1 C Butter  (softened)
½ C Splenda Granular (I used 1 cup)
2 tsp vanilla (I used 3 tsp)
2 C All Purpose Flour
1 C finely chopped pecans
Powdered Sugar


Preheat oven to 350 F.

In a large bowl, beat butter for 30 seconds. Add Splenda and ¼ tsp salt and beat. Add vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour. Stir in pecans.
Shape slightly rounded teaspoons of dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake about 12 minutes, or until bottoms just begin to brown. Transfer to wire rack to cool. Dust with powdered sugar. Makes appr. 72.

You can make Splenda powdered sugar also.  I did for a recipe recently and it turned out perfectly.

1 c Splenda
1 tsp cornstarch

Put both in a blender and blend well. 

I think I may just make these tomorrow, I'll use wheat flour so I'll let you know how they are with that.

Debbi

Oh...pecan Sandies are my favorite cookies!

Thanks Dana, I've printed it and plan to make them real soon.  I will do the "splenda powdered sugar" to save on calories  I might go to sparkpeople.com and check the calorie count when I make them just to see how high they are. (Lord knows the butter alone will do us in).  But yummy trumps calories anyday.

I just ran the nutrition stats on it.  Bear in mind, I used whole wheat flour instead of white flour so that may change things up a bit.

Peacan Balls (with wheat flour) 66 cookies

Calories		50.0
Total Fat		4.2 g
	Saturated Fat	1.9 g
	Polyunsaturated Fat	0.5 g
	Monounsaturated Fat	1.5 g
Cholesterol		7.5 mg
Sodium		9.2 mg
Potassium		8.6 mg
Total Carbohydrate		3.4 g
	Dietary Fiber	0.6 g
	Sugars	0.1 g
Protein		0.7 g

Thanks Dana!  These sounds fabulous!

Terri

I will def be making these-with DEBBI's Splenda powdered sugar idea...awesome!!!

Gina they are good!  My family (that includes my picky boys) asked me to make more.  We left the majority at MILs yesterday.....I think we came home with around 12 and they are gone.