BUTTERY PECAN SNOWBALL COOKIES

If you want to attract the attention of your little ones, you can take note and learn how to prepare this Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies.

These classic Snowball Cookies are little balls of buttery shortbread melt-in-your-mouth goodness with a powdered sugar coating. They are quick to fix, delicious, and freeze well. You may even have the ingredients to make them in your house right now. You might know them as Russian Tea Cakes, Italian Wedding cookies, butter balls, and Mexican Wedding Cookies, but in our house, we just call them Snowballs. They are the delectable cookies with a thousand names.

This is my absolute favorite Christmas cookie recipe! I love them!!! LOVE THEM!!! These Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies will melt in your mouth. They are so easy! You will find that you have a full batch of cookies ready in under 45 minutes. How can you beat that!!

Do you have to use pecans?

Heck no!  You can use English walnuts, black walnuts, almonds, pistachios, and even cashews. Just make sure the nuts are shelled, roasted, and finely chopped.  Each nut gives the cookie a delicious different unique flavor.

Helpful Recipe Tips

• Use real honest-to-goodness butter so they taste yummy. I personally use Land O Lakes butter for all my cookies.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
• Chop the pecans fairly fine. Remember, you can use different nuts.
• This a thick dough, so roll the cookies with your hands because the warmth of your hands will help shape the cookies.
• Preheat the oven and load the baking sheet in the middle of the oven.
• Use parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• If you have time, do a test run with one or two cookies.  It really helps to establish baking time.
• Do not over-bake the cookies. These are a type of shortbread cookies with a crumbly melt-in-your-mouth texture.
• When measuring your flour, spoon the flour into the measuring cup and level it off with a table knife to keep from adding too much flour.
• Store the cookies in an airtight container on the counter for up to 5 days.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 ¼ cup All purpose flour
• ½ cup Powdered sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 Sticks of butter at room temperature
• 2 tsp. Vanilla extract
• 1 cup Pecans finely (Chopped)
• 1 cup Powdered sugar

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