These delicious snowball cookies with walnuts or Mexican wedding cookies are prepared during winter holidays and especially Christmas. The holiday season warmth and toasty treats go well with snow ball cookies. This snowball cookie is a thick, buttery shortbread cookie recipe rolled in powdered sugar and filled with delicious roasted walnuts. Check out the recipe for walnut snowball cookies.
The recipe reminds me of my childhood memories of Christmas snowball cookies. My mom used to prepare these delicious snowball cookie with walnuts every Christmas.
She also always used to share these walnut snow ball cookies with her neighbors and friends. They were everyone's favorite cookies, they would enjoy the melt-in-your-mouth cookies.
At present, my kids and hubby also enjoy these snow-like cookies, we prepare for winter holidays. These snowballs are my family's favorite also.
These little buttery treats have a nutty richness from the chopped walnuts that fill them. The holiday cookies go great for all parties because of their unusual spherical form and the double layer of powdered sugar.
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What Are Walnut Snowball Cookies
Walnut snowball cookies, also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes, are wonderful little treats often enjoyed during the Christmas or holiday season.
The traditional snowball cookies include ingredients butter, confectioners' sugar, flour, and a pinch of salt. But in this recipe, the chopped walnuts are also included.
Because these cookies are rolled in the confectioners' sugar they get a snowy powder appearance. They are called snowball cookies with walnuts.
It's The Perfect Christmas Choice
Reasons for this cookie choice to be the perfect and best walnut snowball cookie.
- It's a perfect evening cookie dessert, that pairs nicely with hot cocoa, coffee, or tea.
- Sharing snowball cookies during Christmas or holiday gatherings works nicely.
- These festive cookies are perfect for gifting or cookie exchanges with neighbors, and friends.
- They are the delicious, easy, and best holiday cookies that melt-in-your-mouth.
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Which Are The Best Nuts For Snowball Cookies
In this recipe for snowball cookies, I have used walnuts they are my favorite. Nuts like pecan, almonds, pistachios, cashews, or hazelnuts also go well for these cookies.
The best nuts for snowball cookies depend on your preferences. Also, experiment with a combination of different nuts of your choice.
If you are allergic to any nuts, the nut ingredient can be skipped from this snowball cookie recipe
Tips For Perfect Christmas Snowball Cookies
These baking tips and tricks will help you to make the BEST snowball cookie with walnuts
- Room Temperature Butter: Let the butter come to room temperature first. The softened butter creams well with other ingredients for crumbly and tender snow ball cookies. If the butter is too soft, the cookies will over-spread, and they will become flat and uneven.
- Fresh Chopped Nuts: Use freshly chopped and good-quality nuts for a better texture. Further, toast the nuts to enhance the flavor. Get them to room temperature before adding to the dough.
- Don't Overmix The Dough: Mix the dough until all the ingredients are well combined. If the dough gets overmixed it can become heavy, and hard snowball cookie come out.
- Chill the dough: Chill the dough for at least 15 – 30 minutes. Chilling helps them to keep their snowball shape. If the dough is too hard after chilling, let it rest for some time at room temperature till it becomes soft.
- If the dough is too dry: it is better to add a little more softened butter or milk. Mix the dough until well combined and reaches the desired consistency.
- Let the cookies rest before coating: After baking let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for nearly 5 minutes or till they remain warm. Then take them and roll them in the powdered sugar for the first layer. It helps the sugar to stick better on the outside. After getting completely cooled roll them again in the powdered sugar, it gives a nice snowy effect on the cookies.
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What Are Snowball Cookies Made Of?
This delicious snowball cookies with walnuts recipe is very versatile. The walnut snowball cookie recipe is made with simple ingredients easily available in the market. Nuts of your choice can be used in this recipe.
- flour: all-purpose flour is used in this recipe.
- butter: it gives a better buttery and rich flavor to the cookies. Use unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
- granulated sugar: mix in the cookie dough and for sweetness.
- powdered sugar: to roll the cookies after baking for snowball effects.
- vanilla extract: for a better vanilla flavor to the cookies
- walnuts: if you like other nuts like pecans, almonds, and cashews they can be used. Toast the nuts for better flavor and finely chop them.
- salt: if salted butter is used, then skip salt
How To Toast Walnuts
- To toast walnuts or any nuts of your choice in this snowball recipe, preheat the oven to 300°F or 148°C. Lay the walnuts evenly on the parchment-lined baked sheet.
- Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven. Roast the walnuts for 8 – 10 minutes, until browned and fragrant. Stir them occasionally and keep an eye on them to avoid overburning. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the nuts cool naturally.
- Chop the toasted walnuts finely with a sharp knife.
Toasting nuts is optional, you can also use finely chopped raw walnuts. TOASTING ENCHANCES THE FLAVOR!
How To Make Snowball Cookies With Walnuts
- For walnut snowball cookies, take a large bowl and mix the flour, granulated sugar, chopped walnuts, and salt. Then add the softened butter and vanilla to the flour mixture. Mix them well with your hands till a coarse meal is formed.
- Chill the dough in the fridge for at least 15 – 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 300°F or 148°C. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper. Scoop 1 tablespoon cookie dough and roll it between the palms of your hand into small walnut-sized balls. Arrange the cookie balls spacing 1 inch apart on the baking sheet.
- Bake the walnut cookie dough balls for nearly 30 minutes, till the bottom gets slightly brown. Let them rest on the baking sheet till they get cool slightly but remain a little warm. Roll the cookies in the powdered sugar and place them on the rack. When completely cool, dust the powdered sugar on the snowball cookies with walnuts.
It's the best snowball cookies with walnuts prepared for holiday occasions. This Christmas walnut snowball cookies recipe is very easy and the best snow ball cookies prepared with nuts.
Serve Snowball Cookies At What Occasions
The snow ball cookies go well for Christmas occasions. Mostly served for evening teas with hot cocoa, coffee, or tea. During Christmas and holiday seasons the cookies go well for gifting and distributing with friends and neighbors.
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F.A.Qs
How To Store Snowball Cookies
Store the walnut snow ball cookies, in an air-tight container at room temperature for 3 – 5 days. Also, store the cookie container in the fridge for nearly two weeks.
How To Freeze Snowball Cookies
The cookies can be stored in an airtight container or zip-top bag in the freezer for nearly 3 months. Before serving thaw the frozen snowball cookies in the fridge overnight or at room temperature for nearly 2 hours.
After you thaw the cookies it is better to reroll them in powdered sugar before serving, it gives them the snowy effect.
Why Are My Snowball Cookies Falling Apart
Snowball Cookies might fall apart or crumble if the dough is too dry or overbaked. Ensuring proper dough moisture and avoiding excessive baking time can help prevent them from falling apart.
Keep kneading the dough mixture till the flour and nuts are fully combined. If you are not able to shape the mixture into balls, add a little butter.
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Why Did My Snowball Cookies Flatten
The butter you use is very warm or melted, insufficient dough chilling time before baking, or baking at too low a temperature can cause your snowball cookies to flatten when baked. Butter consistency is not proper, or inadequate chilling, or not proper oven temperature can also flatten the snowball cookies.
How Long Do You Bake Snowball Cookies
You can bake these cookies for nearly 30 minutes or till the bottom gets light golden brown. If you overbake them they will become tough.
The baking time also varies according to the size of the cookie and the oven temperature.
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Equipments For Walnut Snowball Cookies
- Mixing Bowls – mix ingredients well in these bowls for snowball cookies
- Baking Sheet – bake the cookies on a baking sheet
- Parchment Paper – line up the baking sheet with parchment paper
- Measuring Cups – measure ingredients in the recipe
- Scoop – tablespoon scoop to remove the cookie dough
- Cooling Rack – cooling rack to cool the cookies completely after the first layer of sugar powdering
Snowball Cookies With Walnuts, Christmas Snowball Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cup walnuts or pecans (toasted) finely chopped
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt (if salted butter is used, then skip salt)
- 2 sticks or 226 gms (2 oz) butter unsalted softened to room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar (for rolling cookies)
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Instructions
- To make snowball cookies with walnuts, add the flour, granulated sugar, chopped walnuts, and salt in a large bowl. Mix well.
- Add the softened butter and vanilla to the flour mixture. Mix them well with your hands till you form a coarse meal.
- Now take the dough and chill it in the fridge for at least 15 – 30 minutes.
- Then preheat the oven to 300°F or 148°C. Also, line up the baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Remove the dough from the fridge. Scoop 1 tablespoon cookie dough and roll it between the palms of your hand into small walnut-sized balls.
- Arrange the cookie balls spacing 1 inch apart on the baking sheet.
- Then bake the walnut cookie dough balls for nearly 30 minutes, or till the bottom gets slightly brown.
- Let them rest on the baking sheet till they get cool slightly but remain a little warm. Then roll the cookies in the powdered sugar and place them on the rack.
- When completely cool, dust the powdered sugar on the Christmas snowball cookies with walnuts.
Notes
- let the softened butter, roasted walnuts and all ingredients come to room temperature.
- nuts toasting is optional, but toasting them enhances the snowball cookies flavor.
- it is better to chill the dough to retain the shape
My favorite snowball cookies, I prepared it first time and it turned out too delicious for Christmas.
Easy recipe goes well for Christmas. We enjoyed it.
Awesome recipe for cookies!! I follow this recipe to make snowball cookies at Christmas and Holiday occasions.
Perfect cookies recipe. I mostly prepare it at Christmas season and share it.
Wow, nice recipe for cookies, everyone loved it!
Lovely cookies, I also used cashew nuts in this.
Delicious cookies I prepared for my kids, they enjoyed them. Perfect one’s to prepare at Christmas.