Cheddar Cheese Wafers with Pecans and Rice Crispies (American South)

If you have never had Southern Pecan Cheese Wafers you are missing out. This cheese crackers are a really fun cocktail appetizer and goes great with cocktails.

10 oz (1¼ cups or 2½ sticks) butter, softened
5 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached
5 cups Rice Crispies puffed rice cereal
2½ lbs very sharp cheddar, grated
2½ tsp. sea salt
1¼ tsp. ground cayenne pepper
3 cups whole pecan halves

Cream the butter until fluffy and then add the cheddar and cream until light. Whisk or sift together the flour, salt, and cayenne. Work the flour into the butter and cheese and then work in the crisped cereal. Cover and refrigerate about 20 minutes.

Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F (180°C/160°C fan, Gas Mark 4).

Lightly grease your hands and take up small lumps of the dough and roll them into a ball a little less than an inch in diameter. Lay them on an ungreased cookie sheet and lightly flatten with the back of your hand. Press a pecan into each wafer.

Bake in the center of the oven until lightly coloured, about 18-20 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheet and store in airtight tins.