Evie's Snowball Cookies

1 cup butter, room temperature

1 tablespoon powder sugar

2 generous tablespoons vanilla

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup chopped, toasted nuts (I prefer pecans but also use walnuts)

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups powder sugar

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Cream butter. Add the rest of the ingredients up to the 2 cups of powder sugar. Mix well. 

3. Form balls about the size of ping pong balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 30 minutes until just brown.

4. Add the 2 cups of powder sugar to a medium-size bowl. When the cookies come out of the oven, start dunking and rolling in the powder sugar. You'll do this twice. The first round, while they're still hot, is to get the sugar into the cookie. The second roll is for decoration.

Makes about 40 cookies.

Note: Cookies can be frozen before or after baking.