Pecan Blue Cheese Crackers

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups pecan halves
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 lb saga blue cheese, softened
• 1 cup all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 in a preheated 350 degree oven toast 1/2 cup pecans, about 7 minutes, and cool.
• 2 finely chop toasted pecans
• 3 in a bowl with a fork cream butter and saga until smooth.
• 4 separate egg. add egg yolk, stirring until combined well.
• 5 add flour and chopped pecans and stir until mixture just forms a dough.
• 6 halve dough and on separate sheets of waxed paper form each half into a 12 by 1 1/4-inch log, using waxed paper as a guide. freeze logs, wrapped in waxed paper, just until firm, about 30 minutes.
• 7 preheat oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease 2 large baking sheets.
• 8 cut logs crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices and arrange slices about 1/2-inch apart on baking sheets.
• 9 top each cracker with a remaining pecan half, pressing lightly into dough .
• 10 brush tops of crackers, including pecans, with lightly beaten egg . bake crackers in batches, if necessary, in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until golden brown, about 12 minutes total.
• 11 with a spatula transfer crackers to paper towels to blot and transfer to a rack to cool.