Snowball Cookies With Walnuts, Christmas Snowball Cookies
Servings: 32 cookies
Total Time: 45 minutes
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Delicious walnut snowball cookies, are mostly prepared during Christmas or holidays. These traditional snowball cookies with walnuts are also known as Russian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cookies. The snowball cookies are powdered sugar-covered treats filled with chopped roasted walnuts, butter, flour, sugar, and vanilla, Check the recipe for snowball walnut cookies covered with powdered sugar.
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
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