Its a frosty 4 degree morning and a little dusting of snow fell overnight and while there is not enough to have snowballs outside, we can definitely have them inside.  What could be better than to help warm the kitchen with some cookie baking! Grab your apron and let's get to baking.

These little gems are addicting, so consider yourself warned!  They are buttery, melt in your mouth, toasted pecan bits of heaven.

This is a vintage recipe and I've seen it everywhere, so it is hard to know who to attribute it to.  I will say this is recipe is a little different than many of the recipes in that it requires the pecans to be ground very fine, almost to the same consistency as the flour.  The pecans toast during the bake and your kitchen will smell so delicious.

Snowballs

Preheat Oven:  300 Degrees Fahrenheit

Yield:  4 dozen or so, depending on the size you make them

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter softened 

1/4 cup granulated sugar

2 cups ground pecans

2 cups sifted all purpose flour

2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions:

1.  Preheat Oven to 300 Degrees Fahrenheit.  Line baking sheet with parchment.

2.  Cream butter until softened.

3.  Add sugar, pecans, flour and mix until blended.

4.  Using a tablespoon of dough for each cookie, shape into balls.  I use a small cookie scoop to make this easier.  You can put these close together as they do not spread.

5.  Bake 40 minutes.

6.  Cool for 10 minutes and roll in powdered sugar to coat.  Set back on parchment.

7.  When cookies are completely cool, give them a second coat of powdered sugar.

Grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee and enjoy.

......that's what's Cooking at Cathy's ~Enjoy!