Snowball Cookies

These cookies are delicious and buttery!  The girls had a lot of fun with them too!  This makes about 2 dozen cookies.

3/4 c butter, room temp
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
1.5 t vanilla
2 c flour
1/2 t salt
1.5 c roughly chopped toasted almonds

Cream butter and sugar.  Once creamed, add egg.  Add vanilla.  Sift together four and salt.  Add to creamed mix and mix on low just until incorporated.  Add almonds and mix just until incorporated.  Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour. 
Preheat oven to 350.  Roll about 1 T of dough into a ball.  Bake 20-22 minutes until lightly golden.  Let cool for 5 minutes, roll in 10x sugar.  When cooled completely, dust again with 10x sugar.

You can fit quite a few cookies on the sheet because they really don't expand much.

The girls each had a bowl of sugar to roll their cookies in.

And I wondered why I chose to do this on the same day that I had already washed the floor.

 In the end, the cookies turn out really pretty and taste awesome!