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Mint Snow Balls
Ingredients
½ cup butter
½ cup shortening
½ tsp peppermint extract
2 cups flour
½ tsp salt
Directions
- cream sugar, butter, shortening and extract thoroughly
- blend salt and flour well
- Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture, mixing well
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased baking sheet
- Bake for 8-10 minutes at 400°
- Cool on racks
- Make up thin icing (icing sugar, milk, vanilla, butter) Tint ⅓green, ⅓pink
- Dip each cookie into icing mixture then top with shredded coconut
Note:
- Makes 4-4½ dozen cookies
- From a recipe booklet (circa 1980) from Robin Hood Flour