5-INGREDIENT VANILLA ALMOND SNOWBALL COOKIES

I LOVE HOLIDAY BAKING! It’s my favorite time of year. It doesn’t matter if I’m making cookies, pies, cakes, or easy breakfast casseroles, I love baking for family & friends. These cookies are one of my go-to Christmas cookie recipes. I make a batch every year for the cookies plates we pass out and they’re always a hit. I call this recipe 5-Ingredient Vanilla Almond Snowball Cookies, but I’ve heard them called Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies too. Whatever you name them, they’re a fun holiday cookie that disappears about as fast as I can fill the cookie jar!

These almond snowball cookies just melt in your mouth. They are perfect Christmas cookies and look like darling little snowballs. They remind me of these Russian Tea Cakes but these snowball cookies have more of a melting consistency. Get it? Melting? Hee hee.

The almond paired with orange zest is a delicious and highly addictive combination. Here’s the story behind these: I bought tons of almond meal/flour for the endless macaron testing that I did and had some leftover so I decided to try it in these snowball cookies. And WOW!!!

These are melt-in-your-mouth good and the best snowball cookies I’ve ever had!

A few years back I did a Christmas cookies recipe exchange with some other bloggers. I’m always looking for yummy cookies for the holidays and I got the best recipe from my friend Carrie at Frugal Foodie Mama for the exchange. These 5-Ingredient Vanilla Almond Snowball Cookies are SO easy to make and a hit with everyone, young and old!

A little backstory about these cookies. Carrie might blush, but I have to share the note she sent me along with this recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened (can use Earth Balance for vegan)
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar + more for rolling cookies
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (can use Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (not needed, if your butter is salted)
• 1 cup finely chopped or ground almonds or pecans

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and almond extract.
3. Blend in flour, salt and nuts until dough holds together.
4. Shape into 1-inch balls and place 1 inch apart on baking sheets that are lined with parchment paper.
5. Bake 15 minutes and until set, but not brown.
6. Cool slightly; roll in powdered sugar.
7. Cool completely; roll again in powdered sugar.
8. Enjoy!

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