buttery pecan snowball cookies

Name: Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 11 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup(s) butter softened; 1/2 cup(s) powdered sugar; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt; 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cup(s) flour; 1 cup(s) finely chopped pecans; 1 cup(s) powdered sugar for dusting

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Beth Pierce

Ofallon, MO

Updated on Nov 11, 2018

These Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies are easy, quick to fix, delicious, and they freeze well. You may even have the ingredients in your house right now. Also known as Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies but in our house we just call them Snowballs They are the delectable cookie with a thousand names.

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prep time 15 Min

cook time 11 Min

method Bake

yield 36 serving(s)

Ingredients

1 cup butter softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 cup powdered sugar for dusting

How To Make buttery pecan snowball cookies

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Step 2

In stand mixer cream butter and powdered sugar. Turn to low and mix in salt, vanilla, flour and pecans. Roll into one inch balls. Place on parchment covered baking sheets a few inches part. Bake for 11 minutes. Do not over bake
Step 3

Remove from oven and allow to cool just enough to handle them. Pour 1 cup powdered sugar in large Ziploc bag or in a wide bowl. Gently add 3-4 cookies at a time and roll them gently in the bottom of the bag. Use fork to scoop under each cookie and gently shake to remove excess powdered sugar. Place on cooling racks. Once completely cooled roll in powdered sugar bag again.
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