Chocolate Snowballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 c. butter
2/3 c. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. sifted flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 c. cocoa
2 c. finely chopped pecans
confectioners sugar

Preparation

Cream butter thoroughly; add sugar gradually and keep beating until mixture is light and fluffy.
Add vanilla; combine flour with salt and cocoa.
Add gradually to the creamed mixture; blend thoroughly.
Add pecans and mix well.
Form dough into balls about the size of a marble between the palms of the hand.
Bake in moderate oven, 350\u00b0, for 20 to 25 minutes.
Cool and roll in confectioners sugar.
Yields 6 dozen.