Peppermint Snowballs
Created by amafor3 on October 28, 2011
- Servings: 24
- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 9m
- Recipe #1560
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup hard peppermint candies, crushed
- Powdered sugar, as needed to roll cookies in
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Add hard peppermint candies to a food processor or blender and pulse until candy is crushed. In a large bowl add flour and 1/4 cup of the crushed candy. Set aside remaining candy and flour mixture.
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Step 2: In another large bowl add butter or margarine, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, vanilla and beat together until well combined. Stir in flour mixture and salt blending between additions.
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Step 3: Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place on a ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake cookies until set but not brown, approximately 8 to 9 minutes. Remove cookies from cookie sheet and roll in powdered sugar immediately. Wait 10 minutes and roll sugared cookies into reserved crushed peppermint candies.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (31.5 g)
- Calories 123.1
- Total Fat - 7.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.4 g
- Cholesterol - 1.1 mg
- Sodium - 70.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 12.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.5 g
- Sugars - 2.8 g
- Protein - 1.4 g
- Calcium - 5.3 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg