Snowball Cookies

Tonight Katie and I made the first of many types of cookies we make during Christmas time. The day after Thanksgiving practically my entire street put up their lights by noon. This being the case I'm a bit surprised it took us so long to make cookies. First cookies of the season: Snowballs. Really easy to make. Not so easy to clean up. ::smiley face::

Ingredients

• 1 cup sofented butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar (for the dough)
• 1/3 cup powdered sugar to roll them in
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups  flour
• 1 cup chopped pecans (or nuts, or peppermints, coconut or nothing if you want)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Soften the butter with 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar and the vanilla. Mix in the flour, nuts and salt. Roll about 1 tablespoon or so of dough into balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or golden. While cookies are still hot roll them in powdered sugar. We also rolled a few in coconut after we rolled them in sugar.
4. NOM NOM NOM

Holiday baking starts....NOW.

Each Holiday season my sister and like to go crazy and bake like there's no tomorrow. Or no such thing as diabeetus. The season usually kicks off with Halloween sugar cookies. They are probably the most time consuming, messy, and unhealthy of all the cookies. We make it entirely from scratch and error on the side of butter. Tonight we went all out and made at least 40 cookies. I don't feel well.