Easy Pecan Snowball Cookies Recipe
The Easiest & Most Delicious Pecan Snowball Cookies Recipe! Rich & buttery, with just a hint of sweetness - these are the perfect Christmas cookie!
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Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cup chopped pecans
- powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and lightly grease cookie sheets.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar at low speed until smooth, then mix in the vanilla.
- Gradually, ½ cup at a time, mix in the salt and flour at low speed.
- Stir in the pecans with a rubber spatula until combined.
- Roll out dough into 1" balls and place on a cookie sheet about 2"-3" apart.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, until cookies are a pale golden brown.
- Allow to cool and roll in powdered sugar.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 6 months.
Notes
Don't have time to wait an hour for your butter to soften up? Fill a glass tall enough to hold your sticks of butter, with boiling water, allowing it to sit for a minute to warm up the glass, then pour out the water. Set your sticks in the warm glass and let them sit for 10 minutes or so, and voila, softened butter!
Also, allow your cookies enough time to cool down before rolling them in powdered sugar. If you roll them too soon, the powdered sugar may melt a little and almost become a very light, frosting like consistency.
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