Snowball Cookies
Our Snowball Cookies are a Christmas favorite! They have a buttery vanilla flavor surrounded by soft and snowy powdered sugar. These melt in your mouth cookies are a beautiful addition to your holiday cookie plates and dessert tables.
Servings: 15 cookies
Equipment
- Baking sheet
- Parchment paper
- Plastic saran wrap
- Electric Mixer
- Bowl (for powdered sugar)
- Spoon
- Ice cream scoop
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup finely chopped walnuts
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In a mixing bowl, combine the butter and sugar until fully combined
- Add in vanilla extract and mix again
- Add finely chopped walnuts
- Slowly add the flour in increments
- Mix until creamy (might be a bit sticky)
- Separate the dough in half
- Wrap each half in plastic Saran wrap
- Refrigerate dough for 45 minutes
- Once refrigerated scoop the dough into the ice cream scoop
- Cut ice cream scoop dough in half making two equal pieces of cookie dough
- Roll the dough into perfect circles. They should be about 2 inches in diameter (it’s ok if they’re a little smaller or bigger)
- Place the rounded cookie dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper
- Bake for 12-15 minutes. Be careful to not overbake them and watch for cracking!
- Let the cookies cool until they are warm (not hot)
- Once they are warm to the touch, gently place each cookie, one by one, into a bowl filled with powdered sugar.
- Use a spoon to help carefully cover the cookies in powdered sugar
- Return the cookies back to the baking sheet and let them continue to cool
- Once completely cooled (about 20 minutes), pour the remaining powdered sugar evenly over the cookies on the baking sheet
- Gently press and sprinkle a second layer of powdered sugar onto each cookie
- Tap off excess sugar place them on a pretty holiday plate and enjoy!