Macadamia Sugar Ball Cookies

• 1 cup (½ lb.) soft butter
• ½ cup sifted powdered sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ tsp. salt
• ¾ cup finely chopped macadamia nuts
• powdered sugar

Cream the butter and powdered sugar until thoroughly blended. Add vanilla. Sift flour, measure and sift again with salt into the creamed mixture. Add the nuts and blend well. Shape dough into small balls, about 1 inch in diameter. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake in a hot oven (400°) until set but not browned, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven; place on cooling rack, with waxed paper under rack. Sift powdered sugar over cookies. Makes about 6 dozen.