Snowball Cookies

These cookies have several names. I call them snowballs, the name used in a recipe from many years ago. We made them around Christmas time each year when I was a child and I have continued to make them as an adult.

Snowball Cookies
1/2 cup butter softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup finely ground pecans (or walnuts)chopped very small is also good
1 cup flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
powdered white confectioners sugar

Cream butter gradually adding sugar and beating until light. Add nuts, flour, salt and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together. If necessary, add 1 or 2 tsp. cold water. For each cookie, form dough into a ball about the size of a walnut. (Then you may flatten slightly but I do not flatten any) Preheat over to 300 degrees. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 to 25 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned and done inside. While cookies are still very warm, roll in confectioners sugar to coat. Cool at room temperature.