Recipe: Appetizing Snowball Cookies

Snowball Cookies. Snowball cookies are an unusual combination of ground pecans, lots of butter, flour and a bit of sugar. The cookies themselves are not that sweet but are extremely rich from the butter and the nutty pecans. Snowball Cookies: Buttery pecan cookies rolled into festive snowballs and covered with powdered sugar.

These bite-size snowball cookies often feature ground nuts or cocoa inside, and are invariably sprinkled liberally with powdered sugar or shredded coconut, much to our sweet-tooth satisfaction. Snowball cookies are a favorite Christmas cookie recipe, but these pecan-filled cookies are scrumptious all year round. Snowball Cookies - soft and tender, buttery nutty cookie rolled in a blizzard of perfectly white powdered sugar. You can cook Snowball Cookies using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Snowball Cookies

1. It's 1 cup of softened butter.
2. Prepare 1 cup of finely chopped pecans.
3. You need 1/2 cup of powdered sugar. Add a little more if you want a sweeter cookie.
4. Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
5. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
6. Prepare 2 1/4 cups of flour.
7. Prepare of Additional powdered sugar for dusting.

These festive holiday Snowball Cookies are made with finely chopped walnuts, flour, and vanilla, then rolled into balls and dusted with powdered sugar. These Snowball Cookies are a Christmas classic that can be made with any kind of nut. Snowball Cookies are the epitome of the "melt in your mouth" experience. Snowball Cookies, also known as Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies (among others), are a classic holiday cookie.

Snowball Cookies instructions

1. Cream together 1/2 cup of powdered sugar with softened butter. Add in vanilla, salt, flour and pecans. Roll into balls that are about 1 inch in diameter or about the size of a large gum ball or jawbreaker..
2. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 13 minutes or until brown on the bottom. Your cookie will seem soft to touch. Let them cool for about 5 minutes and then gently roll in powdered sugar (I fill a shallow bowl with about 1 cup of powdered sugar and gently roll them around)..
3. Remove and place on a cooling rack or plate to cool. Once your cookies have cooled completely, give them a second coating of powdered sugar by rolling them in the bowl again. You may need to add additional powdered sugar to coat the cookies and make them look like snowballs..

But, they are easy enough to make when you are craving a. Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, Butterballs, Polvorones, Nutballs.and known as a dozen other names, these snowball cookies are buttery and. Snowball Cookies are a delectable concoction of butter, flour, and sugar. This no-nut version of the classic is a delicious must-make for your cookie plate. Snowball cookies are a classic Christmas cookie!