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Snowball Cookies

December 3, 2015 by becky 11 Comments

A delicious and festive cookie that will melt in your mouth! These buttery and powdered sugar covered Snowball Cookies look like mini snowballs! The perfect Christmas cookie and fun for little ones to help make and enjoy.
Snowball CookiesSnowball Cookies are pretty much the cutest and easiest Christmas treats! Also known by other names like Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Teacakes. We all prefer to call these Snowball Cookies. My boys absolutely love the snow! Almost nothing else can make them so excited as to waking up to see snow on the ground. They loved that these cookies look like mini snowballs and thought I was pretty cool! It would be perfect to make these with your kids to leave for Santa.

Some people like to add chopped nuts to these cookies but we all prefer it without nuts in this house so I didn’t add them. This is basically a shortbread cookie. It’s made with very few ingredients, just butter, powdered sugar, flour and a little cornstarch and vanilla. It’s crazy easy!

The mixture comes together quickly then you shape them into little balls. You can chill the dough if the cookies flatten out more than you would like when baking but as long as my butter isn’t too soft when I mix together the dough I haven’t needed to chill these. Just remember not to put more cookie dough balls on to bake on a warm baking sheet. Sometimes I just stick my baking sheet in the freezer for a few minutes to get it cool.

About 5 minutes out of the oven you coat the cookies in powdered sugar then once the cookies are cooler, about 10-15 minutes later you coat these in powdered sugar again and you get such a pretty powdered sugar covering of “snow” on your cookies! Hence Snowball Cookies!

These cookies are so addicting! Once you bite into it the cookie will melt in your mouth and you won’t be able to just eat one!

Enjoy!

Snowball Cookies

Yield: About 30 cookies

Snowball Cookies

Snowball Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • powdered sugar for coating

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, cornstarch and salt on medium-high speed until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in the vanilla. Beat in flour, beginning on low speed and increasing to medium-high, until completely mixed in.
  3. Scoop dough out 1 tablespoon at a time and roll into a ball. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silpat.
  4. Bake for 11-13 minutes, until lightly browned on the bottom. Let cool for 5 minutes.
  5. Add powdered sugar to a bowl and coat the cookies in the powdered sugar then move to a cooling rack. Once cookies are cool, about 10-15 minutes later, coat again in powdered sugar. store in an airtight container.

Notes

If cookies flatten too much while baking chill the dough balls before baking the rest. I find as long as my butter isn't overly soft when making the dough, the cookies turn out nice and round.

© Becky

 

Filed Under: Christmas, Cookies, Desserts

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Comments

  1. Pam Dana says

    December 3, 2015 at 9:39 am

    I’d never tried making these myself and I’m excited to do it this year! Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • becky says

      December 7, 2015 at 11:21 am

      You’re welcome! I hadn’t made these cookies before until recently. They are amazing!

      Reply
  2. Kim says

    December 3, 2015 at 10:05 am

    These are my favorite kind of cookies! Thanks for the recipe, I’m definitely going to make them this weekend. And none of the rest of my family likes them which means I will be in heaven this weekend with them all to myself!!!

    Reply
    • becky says

      December 7, 2015 at 11:23 am

      Perfect that you get to enjoy it yourself! πŸ™‚ I don’t know how anyone couldn’t like this cookie!

      Reply
  3. Jennifer Booth says

    December 3, 2015 at 10:57 am

    These look delicious! I’ve never been able to successfully bake cookies, but I will have to give these ones a shot πŸ™‚

    Reply
    • becky says

      December 7, 2015 at 11:28 am

      Thanks! These cookies are an easy one so it’s a good cookie recipe to start with!

      Reply
  4. Annette says

    December 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    These look delicious. We need to make these for Santa, I think he’d love our house if we did!

    Reply
    • becky says

      December 7, 2015 at 11:40 am

      Thanks! Oh yes, I’m sure these are Santa’s favorite! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  5. Meagan says

    December 7, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    This look so tasty! They are some of the best cookies during the holidays. I bet my nephews would really love them.

    Reply

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