Peppermint Snowballs

Ingredients

1 cup butter
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

1
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
2
Beat butter, ½ cup powdered sugar and the vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed.
3
Mix ¼ cup of the crushed peppermint candies in with the flour and salt and save the remaining candies.
4
Stir in the flour mixture.
5
Shape the dough into 1-inch balls.
6
Place about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
7
Bake 8-9 minutes or until set but not brown.
8
Immediately remove from the cookie sheet and roll in powdered sugar.
9
Wait 10 minutes then roll in the remaining candy; reroll if desired.
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Barnaby Dorfman's picture

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!

Barnaby Dorfman's picture

Wow! That was fast! Nice photo!

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From Betty Crocker's Christmas.

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6.0 servings

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