Cocoa-Nut Balls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter or margarine
1/2 c. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 c. Hershey's cocoa
2 c. finely chopped pecans
confectioners sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0.
Cream butter or margarine, sugar and vanilla together until fluffy.
Sift flour, cocoa and salt together; add to creamed mixture, blending thoroughly.
Add pecans; mix well.
Shape into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes; do not brown. Cool, then roll in confectioners sugar.
Yields about 6 dozen cookies.