Snowball Cookies

Intro: Snowball Cookies

In this Instructable, I will show you how to make snowball cookies. This easy snowball cookie recipe only requires 6 ingredients. It is kind of like a blend between a sugar cookie and a shortbread cookie, but with nuts on the inside and rolled in powdered sugar. Snowball cookies are popular here in the States around the holidays. They are incredibly simple to make, if I can do it, you can do it. Let's get baking!

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Follow the super simple steps below or watch the short video tutorial, or do both!

STEP 1: Ingredients and Tools

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of unsalted butter, softened (227g)
• 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract (7ml)
• 2/3 cup powdered sugar (65g)
• 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans (walnuts, peanuts, etc.) (112g)
• 2 1/4 cup flour (270g)
• 1 tsp salt (5g)
• Extra powdered sugar for rolling the cookies in. (about 1 cup)

Tools:

• Large mixing bowl
• Hand mixer or stand mixer or wooden spoon (and whisk)
• Spatula
• Cookie sheet or sheet pan
• Parchment paper or silicone baking mat
• Small bowl for powdered sugar
• Wire rack

STEP 2: Cream Butter and Sugar

Preheat the oven to 400F/205C. Make sure the main rack is in the middle position.

Add the softened butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract to a large bowl and cream those ingredients together with a mixer. Use a whisk if you don't have a mixer.

STEP 3: Add the Nuts

Now mix in the chopped pecans. You can use walnuts or peanuts too if you like.

STEP 4: Add the Flour

Combine the salt with the flour. Then mix the flour mixture in a little at a time until the cookie dough forms. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula as needed.

Remove the beaters and clean them.

STEP 5: Scoop, Roll, Bake

Use a Tablespoon and scoop out a heaping amount. Then roll it in your hands. It winds up being a two Tablespoon worth ball. Place the cookie ball on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.

Bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes until the bottom is slightly golden brown. You will notice it on the edges. The tops may look slightly brown too.

Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool for about 5 minutes on the pan.

STEP 6: They See Me Rollin' Those Cookies...

Now roll the cookies in a bowl of powdered sugar and place them on a wire rack to cool completely. The powdered sugar sticks better to warm cookies. So don't wait until the cookies are completely cool to roll them.

Once completely cooled, time to eat them! Enjoy!

**Print the recipe here if you like.

STEP 7: Video Tutorial

Watch those steps in action with this video tutorial. :)

Comments

[Lindaspencer]

I put to much sugar in my recipe will it still work for me

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

It will probably be okay, just extra sweet. Sorry for the late respond, I just barely saw this comment.

[Lindaspencer]

I put 1/3 cup extra sugar in my batter will that be ok

[smith library]

Please don't suggest people eat raw flour products. https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/handling-flour-safely-what-you-need-know

[PlatinumUndefined]

I would feel people wouldn't be that dumb.

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

If the flour is sterilized beforehand it is completely safe to eat. But I should have clarified that. Most people won't sterilized their flour first however, so better to just delete that part which I did. Good catch!

[RobertK255]

We call these Russian Tea Cakes, they are in the Betty Crocker Recipe book my parents have had since they were married 64 years ago ;)

[brahmus]

These were one of my go-to cookies to make 30 some years ago as a kid. I didn't like them THAT much, but we were perpetually out of eggs and these didn't require any. My recipe was from the Betty Crocker cookie book my mom had.

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Awesome!!

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Yep that is another name for them as well as Mexican Wedding Cookies. :)

[clipclopsix]

"Powdered sugar" is listed among the ingredients, but the video appears to use confection er's sugar. Some folk use the terms interchangeably, perhaps because manufacturers have curtailed the marketing of powdered sugar. Does it really make a difference?

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Hi there, powdered sugar is the same as confectioner's sugar and icing sugar. :)

[clipclopsix]

Perhaps in your world. I was raised with POWDERED sugar ground to a consistency finer than granulated, but coarser than confectionery sugar. But I'm really old.

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Everywhere in the United States. Powdered sugar and Confectioner's sugar are snynomous, it even has both words on the package. :)

[ManoelG3]

Although I don't live in US, I would like to add that confectioners' sugar (there's a expression for it in my mother language that is the direct translation, "açúcar de confeiteiro") is a kind of powdered sugar with starch added.

This page from Martha Stewart
https://www.marthastewart.com/8014695/powdered-sug...
says that powdered sugar and confectioner's sugar are different things.

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Confectioner's sugar has cornstarch added. But it is more commonly called powdered sugar. 95% of the time when someone says powdered sugar here in the States they are referring to Confectioner's sugar. This is the most popular brand of sugar in the US. https://www.walmart.com/ip/C-H-Pure-Cane-Sugar-Confectioners-Powdered-1-lb-Box/10290720. Like I said in another comment, it is even listed on the package.

[PinkPrincessUni99]

do you have to use nuts?

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

No, you can leave the nuts out. :)

[stealexander98]

Our grandchild is allergic to dairy products. Can we use vegan margarine instead of butter in this recipy?

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

hi there! I haven't tried it with vegan margarine, so I can't say for certain how it will turn out. It will probably be okay, but again, I don't know for sure.