Chocolate Chip Butter Balls Recipe

How to make it

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• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• line several heavy cookie sheets or rimmed sheet pans with cooking parchment.....
• sift the flour , baking powder, and salt onto the a sheet of wax paper
• place the melted butter in a large mixing bowl
• add the sugar and mix in it with a wooden spoon
• the melted butter- sugar mixture will appear somewhat lumpy... ok.....
• blend in the chopped walnuts and vanilla extract
• stir in the half of the sifted mixture and blend it into form a dough
• let the dough rest for 10 minutes
• spoon up rounded 1- tablespoon-size quantities of dough and roll into plump balls
• arrange the balls of dough 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets placing 12 on each pan
• bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 14 to 15 minutes or until set and light golden on the bottom
• let the cookies stand on the pan for 1 minute then carefully remove them to cooling racks...
• cool for 10 minutes
• carefully dredge the warm cookies in the powdered sugar to coat them .......
• transfer to large sheet of waxed paper to finish cooling
• once cool dredge them again in the powdered sugar lightly ......
• makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies