24 December 2013

Snowball Cookies


This is a quick post because I assume everybody is very busy preapring all the stuff for theese days, but I wanted to wish you the best for these Christmas Holidays with these cookies. Hope you enjoy with your family and friends, days full of love, laugther, nice meals and lot of peace. You still are on time to prepare these cookies, even for New Year's eve, you will not take so long preparing them and they look gorgeous, did them with pecan and cardamom taste, but you can give them the taste you wish.


Snowball Cookies
Makes about 25
115 g unsalted butter at room temperature
75 g powdered sugar, plus extra for dust
120 g all porpuse flour
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon puur vanilla extract
75 g pecan nuts

Preheat the oven to 170° and line a tray with baking paper

Cream de butter and the suggar with an electric mixer. Add the vanilla and the salt and mix it well. Add the flour, the crunched nuts and the cardamom, mix just until combined. Shape into a disk and wrap it with plastic foil. Place in the fridge for one hour.
Shape the dough into a ball (like a nut size), and place them on the tray. Bake them about 8-10 minutes. Remove from the oven and roll right away the warm cookie balls in powdered sugar. And roll them once cooled again.. Store in an airtight container. 

All the best and Merry Xmas!
See you in 2014

Lots of love  

2 comments:

  1. Bon Nadal preciosa meva!
    Fàntastiques aquestes petites gormanderies!

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  2. These look delicious and your photos are beautiful! Merry Christmas Raquel Xx

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