Recipe: Mint Snowballs

"Mint Snowballs"

Ingredients:
1/2 Cup Icing Sugar
1/2 Cup Shortening
1/2 Cup Butter
1/2 Tsp Peppermint Flavoring
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1/2 Tsp Salt

Directions:
Cream sugar, shortening, butter, and extract thourghly. Measure flour WITHOUT sifting into wax paper, add salt and blend well. Now add dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Mix well. Form into one inch balls, place on cookie sheet and cook in 400F oven 8-10 minutes. Cool on rack. Dip tops in icing, pink and green, then in coconut. Yield 4-4 1/2 dozen.