How To Make Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
Serve these delicious almond and chocolate chip-studded snowball cookies for the Holidays! Enjoy soft and moist cookies coated with powdered sugar.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¾cupalmonds,sliced
- 2cupsall-purpose flour,scoop and level to measure
- ¼salt,plus ⅛ tsp
- 1cupunsalted butter,halfway softened
- 1 ½cuppowdered sugar,divided
- 1 ½tspvanilla extract
- 1cupchocolate chips,mini
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grind almonds in a food processor to tiny bits, then set aside. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour and salt, then set aside.
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and ½ cup of powdered sugar until combined, with the mixture not pale and fluffy, but just blended and slightly creamy.
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Mix in vanilla, then with mixer set on low speed, slowly add in flour and salt mixture and mix just until combined.
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Add in chocolate chips and almonds and mix to evenly distribute. Fold batter with a spatula if needed to gather nuts from bottom.
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Scoop dough out 1 tablespoon at a time and roll into a ball. Transfer dough balls to an ungreased cookie sheet, fitting about 16 per sheet and spacing evenly apart.
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Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes until bottoms are lightly golden brown. Let cool for just a few minutes, until they are cool enough to handle, then pour remaining 1 cup of powdered sugar into a small mixing bowl.
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Dip and roll cookies in powdered sugar to get a light coating then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat process with remaining cookie dough.
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Once cookies are cool, roll again in powdered sugar, this time giving them a thicker coating.
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Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
To store, place cookies in an airtight container.
Nutrition
- Calories: 588.72kcal
- Fat: 7.50g
- Saturated Fat: 3.94g
- Trans Fat: 0.20g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.10g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.54g
- Carbohydrates: 129.67g
- Fiber: 0.67g
- Sugar: 121.64g
- Protein: 1.57g
- Cholesterol: 13.38mg
- Sodium: 337.02mg
- Calcium: 18.28mg
- Potassium: 37.10mg
- Iron: 0.55mg
- Vitamin A: 39.81µg
- Vitamin C: 0.03mg
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