Chocolate Snowballs

I got the urge to bake tonight and realized that I had all of the ingredients for these.  I messed around with some recipes I found online, because I didn't have nuts, and this was the result.

Merry Christmas!



Chocolate Snowballs




Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 Tbsp. canola oil
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup (or more) powdered sugar

1.  Preheat the oven to 350 and grease 3 cookie sheets.

2.  Soften the butter and beat with the sugar (granulated, not the powdered) in a stand mixer.

3.  Add other wet ingredients, then dry ingredients one by one, excluding the powdered sugar.

4.  Work the dough into small balls, about 1 inch in diameter, and arrange on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.

5.  Cook for 15 minutes.

6.  Let cool for a few minutes, then roll in powdered sugar to coat.  Make sure they are still a little bit warm, this will aid in the adhesion of the powdered sugar.  

7.  Enjoy!

This recipe should make about 5 dozen cookies.  They are one point each on the Weight Watchers plan.