Duck!!! Here comes a snowball!
December 22nd.
The snowball recipe:2 cups assorted nuts toasted @ 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool and pulse until ground fine in a food processor.
3 cups good unsalted butter.
3/4 cup confectioners sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 cups flour
Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla. Blend in flour and finely ground nuts.
Form the dough into balls the size of a walnut.
Place on cookie sheets and refrigerate until firm.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Cookies should just be browning slightly on the bottom. Allow to sit for about 5 minutes.
While still warm, roll them in confectioners sugar.
Set them on wire racks to cool. You can sprinkle them with additional sugar after they cool.
The nutty flavor develops over time. Make sure to make these in advance so they can sit in containers for a few days.
My cookie platters were delivered to the neighbors this morning by the Blog Tech. He loves playing Santa.
Everyone got a large selection of cookies.
And they all got mincemeat tarts with hard sauce and instructions for eating them. Open mouth, insert tart....hehehe!!!!
I hope my cookies make a few people's Christmas a bit merrier this year.I am now officially on a cookie vacation. I haven't eaten even one of these!
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Comments
Please, give me a gift. Share your secret for abstaining.
I must abstain from all the usual Christmas time 'goodies.' [Health reasons] But I'd really like to be able to do it, with peace. Not with internal whining. -pout-
Gentle Christmas hugs...
Thanks so much for the Christmas cookie tutorial! It was so fun!
xxx ooo to Teddy Christmas is almost here! :)
I´ll eat anything with nuts :-) I think I´ll make some cookies now when I have a weeks vacation. I´ll look in to Your recipes then :-)
Have a great day now!
Christer.
I can't abstain. It's not in me.
Hoping you can sit now and relax in front of your tree!
Lois
These last ones look and sound very good! and would be easy for me to make. Some recipes I can't convert to ingredients I can have, but this one I so could!
Um I am up to loaf 5 or 6 I have lost count on the bread. Pretty sure I am never buying store bought bread again! :O) .. In case anyone ever ask ... Whole Grain Spelt flour or White Spelt flour works wonderful in it... just cut back the water by 1/4 cup as spelt flour takes a bit less moisture :O)... Thats what I have been using.
Don't worry I will eat enough for both of us. Probably tonight!
I can't believe you didn't eat one cookie. Man you've got willpower. I lost count of how many cookies I've eaten already
They do look beautiful.
I love the baskets! So adorable! You really have a great eye for aesthetic! Your giveaway basket has taken up it's home under my Christmas tree and it looks so very festive. Now I just have to keep my husband from eating it all overnight!
<3 Jenny