Chocolate Snowballs
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- ⅔ cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups flour 3 cups if no nuts
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup cocoa
- 2 cups finely chopped pecans
Instructions
- Using a mixer on medium-low speed, cream together butter and sugar. Add in vanilla.
- Add in the salt and cocoa.
- Gradually add in the flour, and mix until well-combined.
- Reduce the mixer to low and add in the pecans, or fold in by hand. Refrigerate dough for at least one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Roll dough into 1" balls and place 1" apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake 12 minutes.
- Cool completely and roll in powdered sugar.