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How It Began....

The Nutball story begins with my aunt Monica Daleiden, who attended the famous Antoinette Pope School of Fancy Cookery in Chicago, and became a successful confectioner and caterer there. In the 1920s Monica, a terrific cook, confectioner and baker by any standard, improved upon a cookie recipe she obtained from her mother. Monica started serving unique melt-in-the-mouth baked confections—which she called butterballs—to friends and family at Christmas. Word of Monica’s signature cookies, with their fabulous texture and rich, luxurious taste, spread far and wide. Besides her kitchen, there was literally nowhere else on earth cookies like these could be found. Consequently, Monica was a most popular person every yuletide!

In the 1940s, Monica taught my mother, Imelda Daleiden, how to bake butterballs, and my mom in turn taught me how when I was a child. Her educating me in the art and technique of butterball preparation was a matter of necessity: no matter how many she baked, or how well she hid them, I’d find and devour them all. And so my butterball career was launched at the tender age of 10, and it has never stopped.

In the early 1980s, my wife Alta and I started a company dedicated to producing my aunt’s cookies. Since then we’ve baked and sold millions of butterballs, and today we continue her tradition: our butterballs are all-natural, with no preservatives, and crafted with only the finest table-grade ingredients. By any name—Snowballs, Russian Tea Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cakes, or Kourambiedes—the raison d’etre of these ball-shaped, sugarcoated, nut-flecked cookies is to melt in your mouth. And make you almost want to kill for more. Order with confidence: our name is on the label, and our reputation is in every cookie. We promise, you won’t be disappointed.

Sincerely, George and Alta Daleiden

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