Snowball Сookies

Recipe from Lily Moore

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Cooking time: 30 min

Servings 25

Traditional snowball cookies with almonds are one of those Christmas classics that many people consider to be a must-cook during the festives. With a rich, nutty flavor and a sweet coating from powdered sugar, these tiny treats are truly the most delicious melt-in-your-mouth morsels.

Powdered sugar

5,8 oz.
Flour

5,8 oz.
Almonds

3 oz.
Unsalted butter

4 oz.
Salt

to taste
Vanilla

0,5 pod
Amaretto

1,5 tsp.

Calories

106 kcal
Protein

2 g
Fat

6 g
Carbohydrates

13 g

Preheat your oven to 356ºF. Bake the almonds in the oven until golden brown. Then let them cool and finely chop in a blender.
Put the butter and 2.30 oz. of powdered sugar in a bowl and beat with a hand mixer until the mixture is light and creamy. Then add the vanilla, a little salt, amaretto, ground almonds and mix. At the end, add the flour and knead a homogeneous dough.
Form the dough into a roll about 1.60 Inch in diameter. Now cover the roll with a food wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
Form the dough into small balls and put on a baking dish lined with a baking paper. Keep some distance between the balls. Then bake for about 9 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and let them cool for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile, sift the remaining powdered sugar into a bowl. Now roll one by one the warm cookies in the sugar. Put them back on the baking sheet, let them cool for another 5 minutes, then roll the balls again in the powdered sugar.