These cookies have been a family favorite EVERY Christmas since before I was born! I started making them before I turned 10 and have been making them about every year since, tweaking and perfecting the recipe along the way. Try 'em and they're sure to be among your family's favorites too.
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Tracy's old-fashioned, family favorite:
Snowball Cookies
Simply delicious buttery pecan cookies!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon (real) vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup pecans, finely chopped
- 2 cups powdered sugar set aside - to be used
for rolling cookies after they come out of the oven
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Cream butter and powdered sugar.
- Add vanilla, nuts & flour. Mix well.
- Shape dough into 1" - 1 ½" balls and place on
cookie sheet.
- Chill in refrigerator for approximately 1
hour.
- Remove from refrigerator and bake 20 minutes
at 350°.
- While balls are still hot, gently roll in
powdered sugar. Place on a plate to
cool.
- Store in a tightly sealed container.
These cookies taste
best at least one day AFTER baking.
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