Peppermint Snowballs
By: Carrie Barr
Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 - 12:26pm

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.

About


From Betty Crocker's Christmas.

Comments:
Barnaby Dorfman

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

Wow! That was fast! Nice photo!