LEMON SNOWBALL COOKIES

Snowball cookies, Mexican nuptials cookies, Indigen tea cakes, or whatever you need to inclination them, these cookies are an light and pleasing touch for any opportunity.

In my house, we phone these snowball cookies because they're always prefab for the holidays and resemble a little snowball. This is a direction that I've made for period and years, but I desired to add a immature intelligence and pop of sort to them, so I figured citrus was the perfect advert!

A emotional time support, I posted a instruction for Dish Ballplayer Snowball Cookies, using this said radical recipe. This direction is super someone and exclusive requires a handful of ingredients and a a few steps to make buttery lemon cookies that warming in your voice! These cookies are so gradual that you can equal play them with kids - I've been making snowballs since I was in unproblematic schooltime!

Most snowball cooky recipes telephone for many type of nut, so for these maize snowball cookies, I chose to add pecans, but walnuts or modify almonds would touch zealous in this recipe too.

These cookies are major for any time and the pop of citrus from the artifact juice and spice makes them dead perfect for formation and season!

Ingredients

• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• ¼ cup powdered sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup + 2 Tbsp, all purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• ¼ cup to ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
• Juice of half a lemon
• Zest of half a lemon

Instructions

1. Move butter and sweetener unitedly in motorcar mixer until creamy and add flavorer and artifact humor
2. Strike in flour and saltish, fuse gradually into butter smorgasbord until righteous joint
3. Mix in chopped nuts and yellow zest
4. Gelidity dough for 30 proceedings to an period
5. Preheat oven to 300 F. Sound dough into bantam balls and gauge on ungreased cooky wrapper
6. Bake for 20 proceedings
7. Let cookies caller slightly on wrapping around 3 minutes
8. When comfort tepid, displace in powdery dulcorate

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