Name: Grandma's Snowball Cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; ½ cup confectioners' sugar; ¼ tsp. salt; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup pecans, chopped; ⅓ cup confectioners' sugar, for dusting, or as needed; ¼ cup finely crushed peppermint candy canes, finely crushed, optional

Grandma’s Snowball Cookies

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Ingredients

1 cup butter
½ cup confectioners' sugar
¼ tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup pecans, chopped
⅓ cup confectioners' sugar, for dusting, or as needed
¼ cup finely crushed peppermint candy canes, finely crushed, optional

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
Using a medium mixer bowl, cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar and the vanilla.
Mix in the flour, pecans, and salt.
Roll about 1 tbsp., or so, of dough into balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake in pre-heated oven until bottoms are golden, about 15 minutes.
Do not allow these cookies to get too brown: it's better to undercook them than to overcook them.
While cookies are still hot, roll them in confectioners' sugar.
Once they have cooled, roll them in confectioners' sugar once more.
Variation: sometimes for Christmas, Grandma would also add some crushed candy canes; add finely crushed candy canes to the confectioners' sugar used for the final dusting.

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