Grandma Billie's Pecan Sandies AKA Wedding Cookies

My Grandma Billie made these for me ever since I was a little girl. This is my second Christmas without her - I think about her a lot, but especially at the holidays. She taught me to make bows from spools of ribbon and while she wasn't the best baker (her chocolate chip cookies were famous for being, well, not that good), she always came through when it came to these amazing little bits of powdered heaven. She also made a mean coconut cake (a post for another day - she usually pulled that one out at Easter). So, here is Grandma's recipe. I have to change the flour to a GF flour blend and omit the nuts for Whit, but for everyone else, here is the original.

Grandma's Wedding Cookies

Preheat oven to 300*

1 cup butter
1/4 to 1/3 cup confectioners sugar
2 t. vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped nuts
1 T. water

Put all ingredients together and mix. Shape into balls and slightly press them. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes. Roll in confectioners sugar and serve.

The Easiest GF Cookie in the World: Sunflower Butter Cookies

Preheat oven to 350*, spray cookie sheet with oil

1 cup of sunflower butter or soynut butter (or peanut butter, Addie:)
1 cup of white sugar
1 egg

Combing all three ingredients.

Roll into balls and press fork gently on top in criss cross pattern.

Bake for 6-8 minutes.

These are quite good and nothing is so easy. I imagine you both needing to pull these out for late night study sessions, a quick fix for when you need to take your own dessert, and anytime you need a peanut butter type cookie, but without flour of any kind or the allergic reaction to nuts.
They are hard to refuse, as you well know. Enjoy!