Because of my success with my Thanksgiving drink recipe series, I thought I was confident enough to start a Christmas cookie recipe series.

I spent some time after Thanksgiving dinner gathering my mom’s best Christmas cookie recipes.  The ones she’s been making without fail for longer than I’ve been alive.  I figured it wouldn’t be so difficult to whip up some Christmas cookies on my own and share here on my blog.

I was wrong.

I don’t know how I did it, but I took a recipe that was supposed to yield 3 dozen cookies and managed to make only about 18.  Also, if you notice, my snowballs are all various sizes because I don’t know what I’m doing.  But!  The recipe itself is a good one and I thought they photographed well so I decided to include them here.  Also, if I can make these cookies with very minimal problems, I think anyone can!  If I made this recipe again, I would make the snowballs super small to make them one bite cookies because I hate powdered sugar everywhere.  I would also probably get 36 cookies that way too?!

This is why my mom makes the Christmas cookies. 

I can see now that I still need her expertise so my kitchen doesn’t burn down. 

Aaand this is a good time to mention that I’m making Christmas dinner.  Should I order a new oven for December 26 delivery?

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Snowball Cookies

by December-1-2016

A Christmas cookie tradition.

Ingredients

• 2 sticks Unsalted Butter
• 1 cup, divided Powdered Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla
• 2 cups, sifted Flour
• 1 cup Chopped Walnuts

Instructions

- Beat butter with 1/2 cup powdered sugar until light and fluffy - Add vanilla and mix - Add flour and nuts and mix - Shape dough into a ball and place into a covered bowl - Refrigerate dough 1 hour - Shape dough into small balls and bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes - When cool, sprinkle snowballs with powdered sugar

Details

Prep time: 1 hour 10 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 1 hour 30 mins Yield: 3 dozen

Powdered sugar everywhere!