Sandy's Snowballs

• 12 cup sweet unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sifted cake flour
• 1 large egg
• 18 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup ground pecans
• 2 -3 cups powdered sugar, more as needed

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Cream butter until smooth and creamy, using an electric mixer.
3. Using a wooden spoon, stir in cake flour,vanilla, egg,& salt until mixed well (using an electric at this point could make the dough too tough).
4. Stir in the ground nuts.
5. Shape into 30 small balls and bake on parchment lined baking sheets at 350 F for 10 minutes (they will appear to be sitting in puddles of melted butter as they bake - this is normal), then rotate your trays in the oven and continue baking another 5-10 minutes, or until they just start to turn golden.
6. Roll in powdered sugar while hot.
7. Let cool.
8. When cool, roll again in more powdered sugar to coat.
9. Store in wax paper lined cookie tins.

sweet unsalted butter, vanilla, cake flour, egg, salt, ground pecans, powdered sugar

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/sandys-snowballs-81532 (may not work)