Snowball Cookies. Snowball cookies are a favorite Christmas cookie recipe, but these pecan-filled cookies are scrumptious all year round. In a large bowl, mix flour, walnuts, granulated sugar, salt, and vanilla. Add butter and, using your hands, combine everything.

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! A recipe for Snowball Cookies - a shortbread-style round cookie, loaded with nuts and rolled in powdered sugar.

Hey everyone, it's me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, snowball cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Snowball cookies are a favorite Christmas cookie recipe, but these pecan-filled cookies are scrumptious all year round. In a large bowl, mix flour, walnuts, granulated sugar, salt, and vanilla. Add butter and, using your hands, combine everything.

Snowball Cookies is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Snowball Cookies is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have snowball cookies using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Snowball Cookies:

{Prepare 1/3 cup of white sugar.
{Prepare 2 1/4 cups of AP flour.
{Get 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
{Take 1/2 tsp of almond extract.
{Make ready 1 tsp of cinnamon.
{Take 1 pinch of nutmeg.
{Make ready 1 1/4 cup of softened butter.
{Get 1 cup of walnuts.
{Make ready 1 cup of powdered sugar.

Let cookies stand on sheets until cool enough to handle. Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar to coat all over; discard remaining sugar. Set cookies on racks to cool completely. They don't look too coated after the first time, but the second coating will give you the beautiful snowball look that these cookies are famous for.

Instructions to make Snowball Cookies:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius. (325 degrees Fahrenheit).
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..
In a medium-sized bowl, combine sugar, flour, broken-up walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir with a wooden spoon..
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..
Once you have mixed all the flour into the dough, place on your work surface..
Very lightly spray your cookie trays with non-stick spray..
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..
Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes. While they are still warm, roll them in powdered sugar..
Voila! You now have these incredible snowball cookies! Happy holidays!.

Reviewers who don't follow this to the tee are missing out.. You can make these cookies with wild black walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, hickory or butternuts -- all will work fine. We usually use unsalted butter to make this recipe. By the way, Snowball cookies are very good keepers, but DO NOT SHIP WELL! I love lemon flavor and this recipe brings that out nicely!!

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