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Snowballs I

Rated as 3.61 out of 5 Stars
38 made it  |  18 reviews   |  4 photos

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"Christmas cookies that look like little snow balls."
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Ingredients

servings 97
Original recipe yields 24 servings (4 dozen)

Directions

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  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
  2. Cream butter and white sugar. Add nuts and vanilla. Blend in flour and mix well.
  3. Form dough into small balls and bake on an ungreased sheet for 8 to 10 minutes until barely brown. Coat in confectioner's sugar while still hot.
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Nutrition Facts


Per Serving: 97 calories; 6.4 9.5 0.8 10 27 Full nutrition

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actual recipe was a little off. if making very small balls, will only make 2 dozen cookies, not four. I also had to double the amount of powdered sugar to cover all the cookies, and the cooking ...

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A big disappointment. Recipe seems flawed, as sugar content is much less than found in other snowball recipes. Results do not cook in time stated, are dry and crumble easily, and have a pasty ta...

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actual recipe was a little off. if making very small balls, will only make 2 dozen cookies, not four. I also had to double the amount of powdered sugar to cover all the cookies, and the cooking ...

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A big disappointment. Recipe seems flawed, as sugar content is much less than found in other snowball recipes. Results do not cook in time stated, are dry and crumble easily, and have a pasty ta...

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This recipe is wrong, wrong, wrong!! It takes no more than 1/2 or 3/4 cup of powdered sugar to roll these in, yet the recipe does not tell you to add any of it to the actual cookie. Also, the ...

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the measurements for this recipe only actually make about cookies, so eb careful! you can substitute pralines instead of pecans. it is tricky to get these to actually stay in BALLS, they kind...

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Out of 10 people that tried these only one liked them. They were dry and crumbly and the powdered sugar ended up looking like paste. these will not be on my Christmas baking list.

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these are wonderful and quite tasty too

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Good flavor. The cookies were moist out of the oven. 3 & 1/2 stars

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These are so easy to make - you never think that the little bit of dough will make 48 of them, but it does! They taste exactly like the snowball cookies my mom used to make... they melt in yo...

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I made these for Christmas last year and they were yummy. They also freeze well.

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