Nut Butter Balls
"These are delectable!! They are light and airy and keep very well. The holidays are not the same with them!"
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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4 1/2 dozen
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups pecans or 1 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped
directions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add salt, almond extract, flour, and nuts.
- Mix well.
- Chill dough until firm enough to handle.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until light brown.
- While cookies are still warm, roll in powdered sugar.
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Reviews
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Lovely cookie, tender and buttery, very easy to make with great flavour. I used 1/4 tsp salt, the required amount I could taste. The nuts add some salt also, perhaps that is why. You could have fun with the coatings. I mixed the cookie batter for 6 minutes and put batter in fridge for 1.5 hours and only used 1.5 cups of pecans which was a lot. I doubled the recipe and it made about 95-100 cookies. Rolled cookies using a 1 tsp measure, small enough to pop in your mouth!!
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