Butter Balls

Start with 4 cups walnut or pecan halves and then grind walnuts very fine using your food processor or a grinder. Set aside.

Cream butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and almond extract. Add flour and nuts alternately into the creamed mixture. You may have to mix by using your hands to really get it all mixed together well. Roll into small balls, approximately 1-inch in diameter.

Place on a cookie sheet (ungreased). You can usually fit a lot of cookies on the cookie sheet because they do not spread that much.

Bake at 250 degrees F for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, have a bowl of powdered sugar ready for when the cookies come out of the oven.

When cookies are brought out of the oven, allow to cool for maybe a minute – just until you can pick them up without breaking them. Roll in powdered sugar and place them on wax paper. Cool.

I also like to roll them in powdered sugar a second time when they are completely cool.

This recipe will make 100 cookies, depending on the size you roll the balls into (so the 36 servings is not correct, but the site wouldn’t let me put 100 cookies or 8 dozen.)