Aunt Sophie's Magic Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb butter, softened
• 4 cups flour
• 1 pint vanilla ice cream
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup nuts, chopped fine (i use pecans or walnuts)
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 cut butter into flour.
• 2 add softened ice cream and work into the mixture with hands.
• 3 add more flour if necessary to make the dough easy to handle.
• 4 wrap and refrigerate overnight. the dough will become hard.
• 5 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 6 combine sugar, nuts, and cinnamon. sprinkle some of the mixture on a pastry cloth or a smooth dish towel. on top of the sugar mixture, roll out a small piece of dough to 1/8-inch thickness to form a 2-1/2-inch circle.
• 7 cut into pie-shaped pieces and roll each from the outside to the center. repeat until all the dough and sugar mixture are used up.
• 8 bake on a cookie sheet 20 minutes or until browned.