Soft Snowball Cookies. These traditional Snowball Cookies are a beautiful addition to your holiday cookie plates and dessert tables. They have a buttery vanilla flavor surrounded by soft and snowy powdered sugar. Snowball Cookies have a crumbly, buttery, nutty texture that just melts in your mouth and are completely irresistible. Beat butter, granulated sugar and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add flour, pecans and salt; mix well.

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Cream butter and sugar in medium bowl until creamy. Add vanilla; beat until well mixed. You can have Soft Snowball Cookies using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Soft Snowball Cookies

Prepare 150 grams of Pancake mix.
Prepare 20 grams of Almond powder.
You need 30 grams of Butter (margarine).
It's 30 grams of Light brown sugar (sugar).
You need 15 grams of Honey.
It's 1/2 of Egg.
It's 2 tsp of Milk.
It's 10 grams of Skim milk powder.

Add flour and pecans; beat at low speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until well mixed. These Butter Snowballs are soft, melt in your mouth cookies with a dusting of powdered sugar. They are a family favorite holiday cookie recipe! Butter Snowball Cookies are a beautiful addition to your holiday cookie plates and dessert tables.

Soft Snowball Cookies step by step

Bring the butter to room temperature. Combine the pancake mix and almond powder, mix and set aside..
Combine butter, sugar and honey in a bowl and mix well..
Add a beaten egg (yolk), milk and skim milk powder to the bowl in Step 2, mixing well after each addition..
Stir in the dry ingredients from Step 1 using a spatula, until the mixture forms a ball..
Wrap the dough and leave in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (At least 2 hours for optimal results)..
Heat the oven to 355F/180C. Line up the dough in small balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (They will expand when they bake.).
If you are making these for kids, bake for 5-6 minutes at 355F/180C until soft. If you want them a bit crunchier, bake for 6-7 minutes..
Remove from the oven and cool on a cake rack. Arrange them nicely and they are done..
Here they are wrapped and ready to be given as presents. These are for adults, so I baked them for 7 minutes to make them crunchy..

Snowball Cookies - soft and tender, buttery nutty cookie rolled in a blizzard of perfectly white powdered sugar. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. While the original cookie recipe calls for walnuts, these versatile homemade Mexican wedding cookies can also be made with almonds or pecans. I've never tried another nut (or nut free snowball cookies) but would be interested to know if they might also work with macadamia nuts, cashews, or even pistachios!