Gran's Pecan Snowballs

Category: Cookies Region: America From: Elizabeth ScheyderAmerican measurements

Ingredients

• 225 g margarine(the kind that comes in sticks not 'whipped' or 'light')
• 60 g powdered sugar
• 230 g sifted flour
• 0.125 tsp salt
• 230 g chopped pecans
• 2 tsp vanilla
• More powedered sugar for coating baked cookies

Directions

Yield: about 80 snowballs.

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C. (If you don't have an oven thermometer, get one, and make sure your oven temperature is accurate. It's $10 well spent compared to ruining batches of cookies!)

Cream margarine and sugar together until smooth. My grandmother did this by hand, but I'm a wimp and put it in the stand mixer with the paddle blade.

Sift flour with salt and pecans to mix. Add to bowl with margarine and sugar. Mix a bit, add the vanilla, then continue mixing until batter is a uniform consistency.

Shape dough into small balls - I make them about 3/4" diameter. Place balls one inch apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes, or until just starting to turn golden.

Remove from oven and quickly roll in powdered sugar. When cool, roll again in sugar, and they'll look like little snowballs!

Store in an airtight container - if they last that long!