butterball cookies

Name: Butterball Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup(s) butter, softened; 1/2 cup(s) powdered sugar; 3/4 cup(s) finely chopped nuts; 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla; 2 1/4 cup(s) flour; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt

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Dee Stebbins

Middletown, NY

Updated on Nov 19, 2013

This was a cookie that we made every Christmas. You could always tell when someone ate one because they'd have powdered sugar all down the front of their clothes...

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 20 Min

method Bake

yield Makes about 70 Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

How To Make butterball cookies

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and flour and salt. Mix together and add nuts last.

Step 2

Form into balls the size of walnuts and place on cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Cookies do not spread.
Step 3

Bake 20 minutes at 325 degrees. While still warm roll in powdered sugar and let cool. Before serving roll in powdered sugar again. Makes about 70 cookies.
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