• 1 1/2 (3 sticks) cups of butter
• 4 cups of flour
• 4 tbsp of baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 finely chopped pecans
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• a pinch of salt
• jam/jelly of your juice

Directions

1. With a blend mix the butter (room temperature), with the sugar, and vanilla.
2. Mix in only the egg yolks saving the whites in a separate container.
3. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt into the mix.
4. Form small cookie balls about the size of a bouncy ball.
5. Dip each cookie into the egg whites and roll them around in the nuts and place them onto a greased cookies sheet.
6. Bake them for 5 minutes at 350 degrees.
7. After the five minutes pull the cookies out and with your finger make an imprint in the center of the cookie so that it resembles a bird's nest.
8. Return the cookies to the oven and bake for another 10-15 minutes.
9. Once the cookies have been removed form the oven, fill the nest with jam/jelly.