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Christmas Shortbread Snowball Cookies!

By Incredible Recipes | Rate Recipe | Posted: 12/14/18 | Updated: 09/20/22

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These are my famous Christmas Shortbread Snowball Cookies!!

They are a buttery shortbread cookie filled with peppermint chocolate chunks and rolled in powdered sugar. 

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They are a perfect & super easy dessert for the holidays!

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A rich & buttery cookie that is sure to have everyone begging you for the recipe as they go flying off the cookie tray this year!

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Six simple ingredients and they do not require any dough chilling either!

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You can add nuts to these if you’d like, last year I used walnuts and pecans!

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Snowballs, Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cookies – Whatever you choose to call them, they are a melt-in-your-mouth cookie that is sure to be a HIT   

They taste like Christmas and are a must have for any cookie platter!

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Peppermint Snowball Cookies!

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Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ Cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 2/3 Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Cup Butter Softened
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • ¼ tsp Peppermint Extract
  • ½ Cup Ghirardelli Peppermint Chunks roughly chopped
  • Red Food Coloring
  • 1 Cup of additional powdered sugar for coating

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • In a medium size bowl, beat the softened butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add in the flour, salt, extract, and about 4-5 drops of food coloring. Beat until incorporated.
  • Stir in Ghirardelli peppermint chunks.
  • Scoop out about 1 tablespoon of dough and form into a ball. Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Repeat until cookie sheet is filled.
  • Place in oven for 6-8 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly golden brown on the bottom.
  • Let cool for 5-10 minutes.
  • Place about a third of the additional powdered sugar on a cookie sheet. Place the cookies on the powdered sugar and sprinkle with the additional powdered sugar. The cookies can be rolled in the powdered sugar as well.
  • Enjoy or store in air-tight container!

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