Recipe: Delicious Snowball Cookies

Snowball Cookies. Snowball cookies are a favorite Christmas cookie recipe, but these pecan-filled cookies are scrumptious all year round. You can have a snowball fight over these cookie! Reviewers who don't follow this to the tee are missing out..

If you want to keep them longer, freeze them. Some of the common names for these delicious balls of pure bliss are, Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Italian Wedding Cookies, snowdrops, butter balls or more specifically pecan butter balls. The name that I think is most fitting is for them is Snowball Cookies, simply put because they look like little snowballs of course. You can cook Snowball Cookies using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Snowball Cookies

1. Prepare 1/3 cup of white sugar.
2. You need 2 1/4 cups of AP flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of almond extract.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
6. You need 1 pinch of nutmeg.
7. It's 1 1/4 cup of softened butter.
8. Prepare 1 cup of walnuts.
9. It's 1 cup of powdered sugar.

A recipe for Snowball Cookies - a shortbread-style round cookie, loaded with nuts and rolled in powdered sugar. 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. The combination of this almost savory interior with the sweet exterior of powdered sugar is just plain heavenly!

Snowball Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius. (325 degrees Fahrenheit).
2. Pour your walnuts into a ziplock bag and close. Using a rolling pin, tap on the walnuts to break them until they are small pieces..
3. In a medium-sized bowl, combine sugar, flour, broken-up walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir with a wooden spoon..
4. Next, add the vanilla and almond extract, and the softened butter; mix well with a wooden spoon until mixture begins to form a ball of dough. Once it’s at that point, mix by hand..
5. Once you have mixed all the flour into the dough, place on your work surface..
6. Very lightly spray your cookie trays with non-stick spray..
7. Grab a chunk of dough (about the size of a ping pong ball) and roll into a ball with your hands. Place on your cookie tray. Bake for 32-35 minutes..
8. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes. While they are still warm, roll them in powdered sugar..
9. Voila! You now have these incredible snowball cookies! Happy holidays!.

These festive holiday Snowball Cookies are made with finely chopped walnuts, flour, and vanilla, then rolled into balls and dusted with powdered sugar. They freeze well and ship well, too! Whether you know them as Snowball Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cookies, these sweet bites are full of holiday nostalgia. These snowball cookies are light and tender cookies studded with pecans and chocolate chips, then rolled in powdered sugar. A melt in your mouth treat that's perfect for the holidays!