Snowball Cookies are known under many different names. Russian Tea Cakes, Italian Wedding Cookies and Mexican Wedding Cookies to name a few.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 12 minutesminutes
Total Time 51 minutesminutes
Servings 36cookies
Calories 109kcal
Author Nicole Crocker
Ingredients
2 1/4CupsAll purpose flour
1CupUnsalted butter,softened
1/2CupConfectioner sugar
1/4teaspoonSalt
1teaspoonVanilla
3/4CupFinely chopped nuts,I use walnuts but pecans are commonly used as well
For coating cookies
1CupConfectioner sugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add flour and salt and combine well. Add chopped nuts.
Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes. Remove cookies to cooling rack.
Cool for 2 minutes.
Roll warm cookies in confectioner sugar. Place back on cooking rack and cool completely.
Roll cooled cookies in confectioner sugar again and place on serving dish.
** My tip for making the perfect snowball cookie: Double coat your cookies. If you don't double coat your cookies with confectioner sugar they won't have that nice white, powdery, snowball look! They'll look more like a glazed donut hole. So if you want "snowballs" make sure you double coat them!