Rum Pecan Snowballs

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (do not substitute)
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons 1% low-fat milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons rum extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup quick-cooking oats, uncooked
• 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 beat together the crisco, confectioner's sugar, milk and rum extract until creamy.
• 3 in another bowl, combine the flour, oats and pecans.
• 4 add this dry mixture to the other creamed mixture and mix it well.
• 5 shape dough into balls by the teaspoonful and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 6 bake in the preheated 325°f oven for 15-18 minute.
• 7 while still warm from the oven, roll them in confectioner's sugar; then finish cooling on a wire rack.
• 8 when completely cool, roll in the confectioner's sugar again.
• 9 store in an airtight container.
• 10 variation: turn this into a new recipe by swapping out the pecans for walnuts to create rum walnut balls instead.