Snowball Cookies

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Also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, these nutty, sugar-dusted goodies are in demand on party tables from Christmas and winter holidays through to Cinco de Mayo and summer barbecues. They’re easy to make and pack for traveling to parties and potlucks, and also easily customized with different kinds of nuts and extract flavorings.

Prep: 10 min
Bake: 35 min
Yield: 20 cookies
Ingredients
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons Swans Down® Cake Flour
  • 1½ cups walnuts, finely chopped
  • 2-3 tablespoons white granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • Confectioners’ sugar, for coating
Directions
  1. PREHEAT oven to 300°F.
  2. MIX together flour, walnuts, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Add vanilla extract. Add butter in little pieces and combine everything together with clean hands until the mixture looks like a coarse meal with nut bits in it.
  3. FORM the dough into small balls no larger than a walnut and place on the cookie sheet, spaced at least an inch apart from each other.
  4. BAKE approximately 30-35 minutes.
  5. WHILE still warm, but cool enough to touch, roll the cookies in confectioners’ sugar. Set on wire rack to cool completely. Once cool, dust with confectioners’ sugar again as needed.
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  • I make these every year for Christmas, but I have to 10 times the recipes because the cookies go so fast

    • Charlotte, Thank you! It is so nice to hear that your friends and family enjoy these cookies so much. They are definitely a fan favorite! Happy Baking and happy holidays.

  • DO YOU HAVE A BOOKLET WITH ALL YOUR RECIPES AND TIPS IN IT? IF SO, I WOULD LIKE TO BUY IT!

    • Hi Ann, Please reach out to our Consumer Affairs Department. They should have all Swans Down recipes that they can either email or USPS them to you. Happy baking!

  • I only make the whip cream pound cake and everyone loves it. It is the only pound cake I make. Thanks Swan Cake Flour.

  • My favorite cookie! Customize the color using petal dust (edible, found in baking department of craft stores) mixed into the powdered sugar. 1 teaspoon petal dust (about 0.15 ounces, 5.6 grams) per 1 cup confectioner’s sugar. These cookies also ship well for care packages to college students and other remote loved ones.

  • My favorite cookie! I’ve customized for color and shipped in a repurposed Pringles can to my niece in college. Use petal dust (edible, found at craft stores in baking department) mixed into the powdered sugar.

  • I am making the Snowball cookies for the second time. They came out awesome and I just love this flour. Will be searching for more cookie recipes using Swansdown cake flour.

    • Hi Marika, We are sorry that you are having trouble locating Swans Down in your area. Your info was forwarded to our Consumer Affairs Department. Someone will be reaching out to assist you. Happy baking!

  • I am hoping you all start making a 5 lb. Package because the small box sometimes I get all ready thinking I have enough of everything and once I ran short on the flour so I looked up how to make a flour similar but did not come out so good.

  • Can you please send me the lemon cheesecake recipe. Thank you

    I have just started using your flour and will not use anything else now. Everything I have tried has come out perfectly.
    I made the whipping cream pound cake and added 3 mashed bananas with a teaspoon lemon juice. It came out great.

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