Classic Butterball Cookies

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bigmike&nan :

bigmike&nan :

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The guy I made the football bet with called them Mexican Wedding Cookies.
My Uncle Ralph's MIL used to throw down one amazing Thanksgiving Dinner every year. Mrs. Billings also had lots of wonderful baked items and hand made candies laid out, where I first got my taste of these - she called them butterball cookies. You ate at her table you got an idea of what really well prepared food was. Too bad I wasn't more into the cooking part of eating as she would have been a wonderful teacher. Never a lousy dish on her buffet.
I got my original recipe off THE JOY OF COOKING, the OLD version.

Love 'em any old way. A Sicilian place I worked in sold them made with toasted blanched almonds - they were quite good - and at $16.00 a pound you learn to make 'em yourself if you have a sweet tooth like me. LOL


I know my mom had the Joy of cooking and it was probably 30 or more years ago so it may even be the same recipe. I'll have to check the recipe.​

 

[bigmike&nan]

I think the one specific difference in my recipe and the one someone else posted was the use of POWDERED sugar for the dough in their recipe versus the GRANULATED sugar in mine.

If you use a mixer to CREAM your butter and sugar together I think you get a very good result with granulated sugar (I've had no complaints), though using powdered sugar I think the amount of actual sugar in the dough would be LESS, for a less sweet dough.

Anyone who has tried to use powdered sugar in their morning coffee (when out of granulated sugar) will tell you you're pouring in TABLESPOONS instead of a teaspoon to get the same sweet taste you would from granulated.