I’ve been busy baking away for the holidays and if you recall last year I told you that I love to bake cookies and bring trays to my friends. Our favorite is my mom’s Butterball Cookie Recipe!
I make about 8 -10 different cookies for the holiday but the most popular recipe is one that my mom passed down to me and we call them Butterballs. And if you can’t tell by the name, they are are made with a lot of butter. And when you combine butter with powdered sugar – they just melt in your mouth!
Over the years I’ve seen a few variations of this recipe but this is the one my mother has always used and now I’ve used it for years!
Only four ingredients makes this recipe super easy to make – Butter, Flour, Vanilla Extract and Powdered Sugar. That’s it! I use my Kitchen Aid mixer to get the butter nice and blended.
The smell from the bowl is amazing from all the butter and the vanilla! And since there are no eggs in the recipe, I’m always tempted to toss the dough in my mouth, but I don’t! After waiting for these, they taste even better.
Once that’s all blended together, I roll them into about 1 inch balls and place them on the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. You can chill the remainder of the dough until you are ready to put another batch in the oven. The kids enjoy helping me with these and it’s a good recipe to include them in. They can easily roll these out while you do the dishes for your next batch of cookies.
After they cooled slightly, tossed them in a bowl of powdered sugar and coated them. The first time not a lot of powered sugar will stick to them, but once they’ve cooled completely, toss them again in the powdered sugar and then they look like this…
These will melt in your mouth. I bake a couple of weeks before Christmas so I put all the cookies in the freezer until it’s time to make cookie plates for our friends and family. I layer them in wax paper and then put them in a freezer bag. I’ve done this for YEARS and everyone comments on how fresh the cookies are even after freezing. For these cookies, you may have to toss them in the powdered sugar one more time before plating.
If you want to make these here is my mom’s recipe…
Butterball Cookie Recipe {no egg recipe}
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Butterballs
Ingredients
2 cups Butter (4 sticks) softened, not melted
8 tablespoons of Powdered Sugar (confectioners sugar)
2 teaspoons Vanilla
4 cups Flour
Directions
Mix well butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and flour. Roll balls on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 9-11 minutes. You don’t want them to get brown. Cool for a few minutes then roll in additional powdered sugar while still slightly warm. Set aside to cool completely. After cooled, roll them again in powdered sugar or before serving.
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Julie Wood says
These are easy and amazing cookies for me to try this Christmas. I have never heard of Butterball Cookies, but I love these. I am going to make these!
Karen Wilmes says
Let me know how you like them!
Julie Wood says
I made these and they were so delicious! So easy to make, and I took them to my Christmas Party and everyone liked them!
Karen Wilmes says
Good to hear Julie!
Rosie says
Oh oh, I’m thinking of these adorable little cookies that melt in your mouth – and how inexpensive it is to make these and easy – no tortured decorating. I love these and want to add them to my holiday recipes to make!
Karen Wilmes says
They are delicious, easy and affordable! What’s better than that?? Let me know what you think of them.
Maralea says
I am so anxious to make these! They look so good and I love how quick and easy they sound to make. Thank you for sharing!
David Fultner says
Thanks my niece will love these;.
jalapenomamamn says
I like these!
It would be fun to add Christmas sprinkles.
thanks for the recipe
Karen Wilmes says
Yes it would be!!
fmd518 says
These look so super easy to make I will add them to the list. Thanks for the recipe.
Megan Filzen says
Are these soft or crunchy?
Sue Hull says
I think I need to make these after Christmas. We all go my mom’s house on Christmas and I know she will make lots of desserts. Her rocky road is amazing! These yummy little balls will be perfect for New Years. Thank you for shaing 🙂
David Fultner says
I have always loved these cookies. Thanks
Kenya F says
These cookies look delicious and easy to make! I’m going to have to attempt to make these during the weekend.
Maralea says
I made last weekend and wanted to let you know they were a huge hit with everyone!
Karen Wilmes says
Yeah!!!
nicole dziedzic says
I love these! I like adding pecans in mine! The powdered sugar on these is what makes them super yummy.
rusthawk says
These remind me of a cookie I had long ago, but with chopped pecans. I have to try them! 🙂
Anne says
These cookies look amazing, but with all that butter, they’d be a real splurge (both in both calories and cost). Still, I’ve pinned them for future reference. Thanks for the recipe. And thanks for the chuckle, too–I couldn’t help but notice that you don’t “color inside the lines” when you drop the cookies on your baking mat. 😀
Shirley Emitt says
Going to make these for an upcomming party, thanks.
sheila ressel says
These look yummy and I always have these ingredients on hand. I’m gonna give them a try this week.
Jerry Marquardt says
This recipe looked so good, I copied it down. I am due to make this this coming weekend. I thank you for the share.
tat2gurlzrock says
These sound so yummy! Thanks for sharing! i pinned 🙂