These are my famous Christmas Shortbread Snowball Cookies!!
They are a buttery shortbread cookie filled with peppermint chocolate chunks and rolled in powdered sugar.
They are a perfect & super easy dessert for the holidays!
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!
Six simple ingredients and they do not require any dough chilling either!
You can add nuts to these if you’d like, last year I used walnuts and pecans!
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!
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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Peppermint Snowball Cookies!
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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