Southern Pecan Butterballs

Ingredients:

1 cup butter flavored vegetable shortening
1 cup powdered sugar (plus more for coating)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. table salt
1 1/2 cups pecan chips

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, combine shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Give it all a stir with a large fork.
Then gently begin adding the flour mixture to the shortening mixture. Add just a little at a time so the flour doesn’t fly everywhere. Stir until combined.
Stir pecan chips into batter.
Roll dough into walnut-sized balls. Place them about 1 1/2 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for about 15 minutes until the edges just begin to brown slightly. Bake only one cookie sheet at a time.
While the cookies are baking, get a bowl of powdered sugar ready for dipping.
Let cookies cool for just a couple of minutes. While still warm, roll the cookies in the powdered sugar. Place them on a platter (or just roll out a sheet of wax paper like I do) and let cookies finish cooling.
Once they are cool, roll cookies a second time into the powdered sugar. The second dipping ensures even and smooth coating.

Source : thecountrycook.net