Chocolate Cottage Cheese Wagon Wheel Cookies

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 4 hrs Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups butter
• 3 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups small curd cottage cheese
• 5 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cream sugar and butter together.
• 2 add cottage cheese and beat well.
• 3 add dry ingredients to sugar and butter mixture; mix well.
• 4 add nuts.
• 5 chill several hours or overnight.
• 6 rolls into balls, then roll in powdered sugar.
• 7 bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.