Ice Box Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 4 cups sifted flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 2 cups finely chopped nuts

Directions

Cream butter ans sugars. Mix in beaten eggs. Sift flour with baking powder and salt: add to egg mixture. Stir in vanilla and nuts. Make dough into rolls about the diameter of a fifty cent piece. Wrap in waz paper and refrigerate overnight. Slice thinly: bake on cookie sheet at 350 degrees until light brown. Remove from pan and cool. Keep in tightly closed container. This dough keeps up to 10 days in the refrigerator. It is nice to pull a roll out and bake fresh homemade cookies.

Source: Guest Recipes – KNOE – Monroe, La.