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butterball cookies

Recipe by
Dee Stebbins
Middletown, NY

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...

yield serving(s)
prep time 10 Min
cook time 20 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For butterball cookies

  • 1 c
    butter, softened
  • 1/2 c
    powdered sugar
  • 3/4 c
    finely chopped nuts
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla
  • 2 1/4 c
    flour
  • 1/4 tsp
    salt

How To Make butterball cookies

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and flour and salt. Mix together and add nuts last.
  • 2
    Form into balls the size of walnuts and place on cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Cookies do not spread.
  • 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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