3 Ingredient Easy Snowball Cookies
With only 3 ingredients and one bowl, these snowball cookies will become your family's favorite holiday cookie! Buttery, dense, and sugary, the dough is baked in just 15 minutes and then rolled in powdered sugar to look like a snow ball. There's an option to add nuts if you like but they are delicious either way! With an easy way to remember the recipe, you will be making these on repeat all season long.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar, plus more for rolling
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups all purpose flour, 240g
- 1/2 cup pecans or pistachios, (optional) I leave them out!
Equipment
Instructions
- Make sure your butter is at room temp. See photos to make sure!
- Add 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup softened butter to the bowl of a hand or stand mixer with the paddle attachment. Cream on medium speed for 1-2 minutes until light and fluffy. Stop and scrape down the sides.
- With the mixer on low- slowly start adding in the flour about 1/2 cup at a time allowing the flour to incorporate into the dough until adding more.
- Mix on medium if the dough isnt coming together quick enough. Once all the flour is added and a smooth dough forms stop the mixer.
- If using nuts, add the nuts in here and mix by hand. You can also do half with, and half without nuts like I did in this post (use 1/4 cup chopped pistachios for half the batter) You'll need to separate the dough in half to do so.
- Chill the dough for 30 minutes in the fridge. Preheat the oven to 350° F and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- When the dough is chilled use a 1 tbsp cookie scoop or a kitchen tbsp to scoop out the dough. Line 4 cookies per row in 3 rows (12 cookies per sheet). Repeat with other cookie sheet.
- Bake for 15 minutes until lightly golden.
- In a shallow bowl add about 1/4 cup more powdered sugar. You can totally eyeball this because its just used for rolling.
- Cool the cookies for 8 minutes, then roll them in powdered sugar while still warm. Let them cool on the countertop for the sugar to set. You can re roll them in sugar but I find I dont need to!
- Store in an airtight container for 3 days or freeze for up to 2 months. Dust with powdered sugar before serving if making ahead.
Notes
If you're making ahead and the sugar doesnt look so great before serving, just dust them with powdered sugar or roll them again and serve away!
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 142kcal, Carbohydrates: 12g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 0.3g, Cholesterol: 22mg, Sodium: 1mg, Potassium: 24mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 3g, Vitamin A: 259IU, Vitamin C: 0.02mg, Calcium: 6mg, Iron: 1mg
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