Snowballs
Created by Sweetopia on December 17, 2015
- Servings: 40
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 9-12m
- Recipe #22178
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (at room temperature, use salted butter)
- 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar (more for rolling)
- 4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup pecan nuts (toasted, cooled, and finely ground using a food processor, stop as soon as it looks ground; avoid it becoming pasty)
How to Make
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Step 1: Cream together butter, 3/4 cup sugar and vanilla in a stand mixer.
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Step 2: Add flour into butter mixture 1/2 cup at a time, when all mixed, then mix in ground pecans
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Step 3: Roll into 24 balls.
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Step 4: Bake at 350 for 9-12 minutes.
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Step 5: Remove from oven, let cool 1-2 minutes. WHILE STILL WARM, roll in confectioners' sugar. Cool then roll one more time in the sugar.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (19.7 g)
- Calories 101.3
- Total Fat - 6.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 12.2 mg
- Sodium - 41.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 9.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 3.8 g
- Protein - 1.3 g
- Calcium - 6.2 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg