Pecan Snowball Cookies
Mexican wedding cookies, snowball cookies, or pecan snowball cookies are cookies made with pecans, and rolled into powdered sugar so they look like snowballs.
Servings: 24
Calories: 159kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Salted butter softened
- 1 1/4 cup Powdered sugar Divided 3/4 c and 1/2 cup
- 1 cup Pecans ground up
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
Instructions
- Cream together butter, 3/4 cup powdered sugar and vanilla in a stand mixer
- Grind up the pecans into a fine mixture. *I used my food processor, but a blender would work well too.
- Add flour into butter mixture 1/2 a cup at a time, when all mixed, then mix in ground pecans
- Roll into balls
- Bake at 350 for 14 minutes
- Remove from oven, let cool 1-2 minutes, then roll in remain 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Nutrition
Calories: 159kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 67mg | Potassium: 30mg | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 240IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.6mg