Snowball Cookies

These Snowball cookies are nutty, melt-in-your-mouth tender, and loaded with toasted pecans. They are one of the easiest Christmas cookies to make, using just 5 ingredients.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword pecan butter ball cookies, pecan cookies with powdered sugar, pecan snowball cookies, pecan snowballs, pecan wedding cookies, snowball cookies

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 20

Chilling time 30

Total Time 1 20

Servings Cookies

Calories 110kcal

Author Maria Doss

Equipment

Ingredients

½ cup 115 grams unsalted butter, room temperature 1 stick
1 cup 120 grams confectioners sugar, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 cup 126 grams all purpose flour
1 cup 125 grams toasted pecans chopped fine

Instructions

Add butter, ¼ cup confectioners sugar, vanilla extract and salt into a medium bowl and beat with a hand held electric beater for about 2 minutes or creamy.
Add all purpose flour and chopped pecans, and continue mixing, until the dough comes together. Chill for at least 30 minutes or up to 2 days.
Tip: If chilling for more than 30 minutes, let dough sit at room temperature for at least 15 minutes before rolling into balls.
Pre heat oven to 350°F (177°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll about 1 tablespoon measure dough into a smooth ball and place on the prepared baking sheet, spacing about an inch apart.
Bake cookies until golden brown on the bottom edges but barely brown on top, about 17 to 20 minutes.
Place baking pan on a wire rack and cool for about 5 minutes. Place remaining confectioners sugar in a shallow bowl, gently roll warm cookies in the confectioners sugar to coat on all sides. Place them on a plate to cool completely.
Roll them again in sugar to ensure that it sticks.
Pro tip: The trick is to roll them twice! Give the cookies their first coating when they are slightly warm. As the cookies cool, the confectioners' sugar will melt into them. After the snowball cookies have cooled, coat them in confectioners' sugar again, and they'll be as beautifully snowy and stay true to their name.

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Notes

Confectioners sugar is the same as powdered sugar found in grocery stores.

Chop the pecans very fine. I prefer processing them in a mini food processor, but don't make them powdery.

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