Peppermint Snowballs

Photo: Katie Lovering

Ingredients

1 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup hard peppermint candies, crushed

Powdered sugar for rolling

Preparation

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Beat butter, ½ C powdered sugar and the vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed.Mix ¼ C of the crushed peppermint candies in with the flour and salt,& save the remaining candies. Stir in the flour mixture.

Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 8-9 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from the cookie sheet; roll in powdered sugar. Wait 10 minutes then roll in the remaining candy. Reroll if desired.

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Comments

Permalink Barnaby Dorfman
December 18, 2008

Wow! That was fast! Nice photo!

Permalink Barnaby Dorfman
December 18, 2008

Fun recipe, especially this time of year. I edited a bit for formatting consistency. I also took out the first person, "I" references. See more advice in help: http://www.foodista.com/help

Thanks for adding! and we'd love to see someone upload a photo!