Snowball Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups ground walnuts
• about 2 cups powdered sugar for rolling the balls

1. Whip up the butter and add the sugar, whipping until it becomes fluffy. Then add the vanilla.
2. Add the dry ingredients into the vanilla, butter and sugar mixture.
3. In a food processor, pulse the walnuts pretty fine.
4. Mix the walnuts into the dough.
5. Using your hands , roll the cookie dough into little balls about 1 1/2 in diameter.
6. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place the snowballs on it .Chill for about 10 min.
7. Then bake in a 325 degree oven for about 20 to 30 minutes. Watch to make sure the bottoms don't burn. Half way through, reverse the cookie sheet.
8. Immediately after removing from the oven, roll the balls in powdered sugar, completely coating them. Or, if your are all thumbs, like me, I use a flour sifter and sift the powdered sugar all over the balls and then gently (!) roll them over and do the other side. Then I roll them over once again and sift more sugar over them.
9. Cool, then sprinkle more powdered sugar on them and shake off the excess..

butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, flour, salt, ground walnuts, powdered sugar

Taken from food52.com/recipes/2221-snowball-cookies (may not work)