GrandLady's Cinnamon Cookies

Ingredients

• 0.8 cup butter softened
• 1  egg yolk 
• 2 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 
• 3 cups pecans finely chopped
• 1 cup sugar 

Equipment

• bowl
• baking sheet
• baking paper
• oven
• wire rack
• hand mixer
• pizza cutter

Directions

1. Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 to 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.
2. Add flour and cinnamon, beating well. (Dough will be stiff.)
3. Roll dough to 1/8-inch thickness between sheets of parchment paper.
4. Remove top sheet of parchment, and invert dough onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
5. Remove parchment paper, and press pecans evenly into dough.
6. Bake cookies at 350 for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 250, and bake 10 more minutes.
7. Remove from oven, and cut cookies (while dough is hot) into 3- x 1 1/2-inch rectangles, using a pizza cutter. Cool on a wire rack.
8. Sprinkle cookie crumbs that remain from cutting over bowl of vanilla ice cream.