Best Snowball Cookies

Best Snowball Cookies

from allrecipes.com
Dessert
45 min
63 kcal / serving

Snowball cookies are incredibly easy to make for rich and buttery, melt-in-your-mouth festive treats rolled in powdered sugar to resemble snowballs.

Ingredients

  • 1 cupunsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cuppowdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
  • 2 ¼ cupsall-purpose flour
  • 1 cupvery finely chopped pecans
  • ¼ teaspoonsalt
  • ⅓3334326744 cup powdered sugar, or more as needed

Directions

  1. 1

    Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  2. 2

    Beat butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and vanilla with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth.

  3. 3

    Gradually mix in flour, pecans, and salt until completely incorporated.

  4. 4

    Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and place 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.

  5. 5

    Bake in the preheated oven until bottoms are light golden brown but tops are still pale, 12 to 15 minutes. (Try not to let cookies get too brown: it's better to undercook them than to overcook them.)

  6. 6

    Remove cookies from the oven and let sit on the baking sheets briefly before removing to wire racks.

  7. 7

    Place 1/3 cup powdered sugar in a shallow bowl; roll hot cookies in sugar to coat, then return to the wire racks to cool.

  8. 8

    Once cooled, roll cookies in the powdered sugar once more.