Walnut Snowball Cookies

Walnut Snowball Cookies

from simplyrecipes.com
45 min
20 servings

These festive walnut snowball cookies are made with finely chopped walnuts, flour, butter, and vanilla, then rolled into balls and dusted with powdered sugar. This snowball cookie recipe freezes and ships well too!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose or cake flour
  • 1 1/2 cups walnuts, finely chopped
  • 2 to 3 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 8 tablespoons (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • Pinch of salt
  • Powdered sugar, to coat (about 1 cup)

Directions

  1. 1

    Make the dough: Mix all the dry ingredients—flour, walnuts, salt, sugar—in a large bowl. Add the vanilla extract. Add the butter in little pieces, and combine everything together with your (clean!) hands until the mixture looks like a coarse meal with nut bits in it.

  2. 2

    Chill the dough: Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes in the fridge or up to overnight.

  3. 3

    Preheat the oven: Preheat the oven to 300°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment or silicon baking mats.

  4. 4

    Form the dough into balls: Form the dough into small balls no larger than a walnut and place on the cookie sheet, spaced at least an inch apart from each other.

  5. 5

    Bake: Bake the cookies for 35 minutes.

  6. 6

    Roll in powdered sugar: When cookies are still warm, but cool enough to touch, roll them in the powdered sugar. Set aside on a rack to cool completely. When cool, dust again in powdered sugar.