Swedish Butter Balls

Hello everyone,

It was a mild but very rainy day here today so I thought it would be a good day to bake some cookies for the annual cookie exchange that I have been in the past few years. I am making Swedish Butter Balls again this year because not only are they good but they are easy to make too.

We might as well try one with a cup of tea.

a cloche full of butter balls

my cloche is new from tjmaxx

I'm having fun with my camera again!

Now I will be nice and share the recipe for these lovely melt in your mouth Swedish Butterballs.

preheat oven to 400 degrees cookie sheet ungreased

1 cup butter,softened

1/2cup sifted icing sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 cups flour

1 cup finely chopped pecans or hazelnuts or almonds

1. cream butter,icing sugar and vanilla throughly. Add flour. Mix well. Stir in nuts,mixing until smooth.

2. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. place on cookie sheet.Bake for 8-12 minutes at 400 degrees until light golden. Cool and then roll in icing sugar .

These freeze well.

This recipe came from the Robin Hood Baking Festival ccokbook -one of my favorites.

I hope you have a chance to make these buttery little goodies!

Thanks for the visit,

Carolyn

Be my Guest!

This is a small guest room in our home that some of you have seen before but we are getting a bit of sunshine so I thought I would try to get a few pictures in a better light to share today.

You have probably noticed that I love toile and have several different colors of it in our home. I love toile fabric,wallpaper and china.

We did get a dusting of snow last night-our first this winter( well almost winter). Last night I went to the movie Blind Side with a couple of my daughter's and we all really enjoyed it .It is based on a true story and has a good message-if you haven't seen it yet I think you would enjoy it.

Thank you for visiting me,

Carolyn