Melting Snow Cookies - a recipe for buttery baked goods without eggs. Cookies "Snowballs" Butter cookies "snowball" recipe
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You probably bought delicious cookies"Snowball" This baking has a simple recipe, so you can make these cookies yourself - just like in the store. For some reason, the winter name of this sweet is not at all associated with cold, evoking the magical smells of vanilla and coriander. True, this was not always the case; the first cookies appeared shortly after the invention of bread. It was a tasteless piece of dough, which was initially used to determine the heating of the oven. It was only in the seventh century, after a method for producing sugar was found, that it began to be added to baked goods. Convenient small products won the hearts of sailors because they could be stored for a long time without losing their taste. Thanks to the development of trade relations, this sweet conqueror of men's hearts gradually conquered the whole world. And even though this wonderful baby is called differently in every country, the love of children and adults for him is limitless. A tender cookies“Snowball” will be a delicious reward for a warm family tea party.
Well, next time let's cook.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of flour,
- 25 grams of semolina,
- 100 grams 72% butter,
- ½ packet of vanillin,
- ¼ teaspoon rock salt,
- ¼ teaspoon of baking soda, quenched with vinegar,
- 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
How to cook with photos step by step
Place the softened butter in a deep container, add fine granulated sugar, salt and beat with a mixer at medium speed. 
Add baking soda and vanilla sugar to the sweet mixture and lightly beat again until the mixture becomes beige in color. 
Mix the sifted wheat flour with semolina and gradually add to the aromatic oil mixture. Knead a thick, elastic dough, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 
After the time has elapsed, form a thin sausage from a pliable ball or roll out the layer on a flat surface and cut into small logs. To make it look like wood fiber, use a baby or dessert fork to make transverse wavy paths. 
Place your creations in a heat-resistant form or on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, maintaining a stable temperature of no higher than 180 degrees. As soon as the baked goods are browned, remove the pan and place it on a plate to cool. 
Sprinkle the cooled product generously with powdered sugar and serve with tea with cream and raspberry jam. Frozen berry jelly, canned compote, coffee with cinnamon will expand the taste boundaries of the fragrant “Snowball” cookies. 
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From the name of the cookie you can immediately guess that in appearance it resembles lumps of snow, light in color, very delicate in taste and melts in your mouth. Children love it, so once you have prepared the snowball cookies, you can pack them in a beautiful box and present them for the holiday. For ease of use, the cookie sizes should resemble Walnut or slightly larger.
My snowball cookies are made in the classic style, but there are other recipes. For example, Americans prefer lemon snowballs, snowball cookies, where lemon zest and lemon are added. You can also see it on supermarket shelves in pale pink, chocolate color, so delicate dyes, cocoa powder, nuts, mint are added, and sprinkled with a large amount of powdered sugar.
1. Snowball cookies
Sometimes these cookies are also called “nut balls”, since they contain nuts, Mexican wedding cookies and Russian cakes.
My recipe is time-tested, we always prepare it for the New Year and Christmas holidays, so whoever hasn’t treated yourself and your children with snowballs yet, follow my advice, bake it for your family, friends and acquaintances.
Components:
- butter (melted) - two packs or 200 grams;
- powdered sugar or fine-grained sugar - 150-160 grams;
- vanilla - 3 pinches;
- flour premium- 2.5 glasses;
- chopped nuts (walnuts) - 120 grams;
- salt - 1/4 teaspoon;
- powdered sugar for dusting - 1/3 cup or as desired
According to the recipe Snowball Cookies are prepared as follows:
1. Add softened butter, powdered sugar, salt and vanilla to the mixing chamber. Try to punch it to a spreadable consistency.
2. Add wheat flour sifted through a sieve and knead the dough by hand.
3. Remove the shells from the walnuts, remove the kernels, crush them, dry them in a frying pan and add them to the dough, repeat the kneading.
4. Let the dough rest, then form into balls and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
5. Preheat the oven for 15 minutes and place snowball cookies for baking. It is important that after baking, Snowball cookies should remain white, but they may be slightly browned underneath.
6. One more subtlety. As soon as the cookies have cooled slightly, roll them in powdered sugar. And when placing on a serving plate, repeat the process of replenishing with powdered sugar.
2. Shortbread snowball cookies with coconut flakes
These fluffy lumps are always in demand at the holiday table, my attempts to prepare them were crowned with success, so I wish you, too, to carefully read this recipe and bake snowball cookies.
Components:
- butter - 120 grams;
- chicken egg - only two yolks;
- flour - 200 grams (or 1 cup +1/4 cup);
- sugar - 2.5 full tablespoons;
- vanilla sugar - one teaspoon;
For the glaze:
- warm boiled water - 2 tablespoons;
- powdered sugar - 100 -110 grams;
- coconut shavings - as needed.
On prescription shortbread Snowballs with coconut are prepared like this:
1. Place butter in a convenient bowl room temperature, add soft butter, sugar and vanilla sugar. Mix a little with a tablespoon, and then beat for 3-4 minutes.
2. Without stopping the beating process, add one yolk at a time and continue beating for another 2-3 minutes. If the oil mixture sticks to the walls of the container, carefully return it to the bowl using a spatula.
3. Add flour to the resulting mass and knead the dough until smooth. If the dough sticks to your hands, it needs to be placed in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
4. Return the dough to the work surface and form identical balls from it, which we place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. When laying out the balls, do not place them tightly together.
5. Preheat the oven and set to bake our snowball cookies. After baking, cool and apply fondant and coconut.
6. For the glaze, add two tablespoons of water to the powdered sugar and stir until smooth. If the glaze seems runny, then you can add a little more powdered sugar.
7. Finally, dip the cooled cookies in the glaze and then roll them into coconut flakes. You can taste it. Beauty, isn't it?
1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens a little. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Using a mixer on medium speed, beat the butter until creamy, about 20 seconds. Add 2/3 cup of powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, and vanilla extract to it, and then mix again. It is better not to replace powdered sugar with sugar, because it is thanks to it that the cookies turn out so tender and literally melt in your mouth.
2. Sift cornstarch into the dough, spreading it evenly over the surface. Mix until combined, then turn the mixer to low speed and gradually beat in the flour. The resulting dough should stick together well, so you can easily roll it into small balls. You can involve children in this activity; they usually really like making small snowballs with their mother.
3. Place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and place in a preheated oven for 16-18 minutes. Focus on the bottom edges: they should turn slightly golden. Remove our shortbread cookies from the oven and let them cool for a few minutes. Do you feel how delicious it smells? No comparison with what they sell in the store.
4. When cool enough to handle, roll it in powdered sugar. Don’t put off this process until later, as powdered sugar simply won’t stick to cold cookies. Place the finished snowballs on a wire rack and let cool completely. Roll them in powder again and then serve. It is best to store this delicacy in an airtight container. The recipe is adapted from the English-language blog Cooking classy. Many thanks to the author.
Step 1: Preheat the oven.
The first thing we will do is turn on the oven and heat it to 190-200 degrees. The dough for these cookies is prepared very quickly and should not be placed in a cold oven. While the oven is heating up, let's start making the dough.Step 2: beat the ingredients.
Take a mixer and place it in its bowl. butter 340 grams, powdered sugar 150 grams. Beat the added ingredients until creamy. Approximate time 15 – 20 minutes. Then we add vanilla sugar 1 packet and 250 grams of starch. Beat thoroughly again for 10 minutes.
Step 3: knead the dough.
Transfer the whipped mixture from the mixer bowl into a deep bowl with a tablespoon. Take a sieve and sift the flour through it directly into a bowl with all the necessary whipped ingredients. Mix the dough with your hands directly in the bowl. The dough should be soft, not stick to your hands, easy to tear off and roll out. Step 4: form and bake cookies.
Place a sheet of baking paper on a baking tray. Although our dough contains butter, this fact gives us a one hundred percent guarantee that our cookies will not burn. But it never hurts to play it safe. Divide the kneaded dough into balls using a regular tablespoon; they should be the size of a walnut. Place the pieces of dough rolled into balls on a baking sheet prepared for baking. The distance between the cookie balls should be no less 3-4 centimeters.
Press the finished balls lightly on top with a fork. On the surface of the balls you get beautiful, even stripes - patterns. 
Bake cookies in the oven for 15 – 20 minutes. Cookies should not be dark. It will rise and expand in size during baking. In total, the dough that we will prepare with you will yield approximately 23 - 25 pieces.
Step 5: decorate the finished cookies.
Roll the finished cooled cookies in powdered sugar and place them on a cutting board so that the powdered sugar is saturated with the butter that formed on the cookies during baking. After 10 - 15 minutes, roll the cookies in powdered sugar again. The result was snow-white balloons. The cookies are ready. Step 6: Serve the Snowball Cookies.
Laying it down ready-made cookies“Snowballs” on a plate and serve with tea, juice, coffee, or cocoa. These sweets can be prepared any day. Your loved ones will be pleasantly surprised by such a tasty, airy and sweet surprise. Bon appetit And good mood to you! Cookies "Snowballs" turn out very tasty with various additives. I used different types nuts, dried apricots, prunes, dried fruits and raisins. If you wish, you can try to make your own adjustments to the recipe.
There is another way to make dough balls. Take a small piece of dough, roll it into an oblong sausage and cut it into equal parts with a knife. Correct the edges of the cut pieces, press them on top with a fork, and safely place them in the oven.
Store the cookies in a tightly sealed container or cover the bowl with the cookies with plastic wrap. Cookies that stand for at least 10 hours in a closed space will be much tastier. Because the butter, which is part of the cookies, is completely saturated with powdered sugar. The cookies will be even softer.
If you don't have any whipping equipment on hand. All ingredients can be whipped and mixed using a fork or whisk.
I finally baked these cookies! It's called "Snowball Cookies" and popular in America and Europe. After preparing it, I understood why. It is very tasty, simple and so similar to snowballs in appearance and texture. Crispy, crumbly and so nutty))) It will be an excellent treat for tea drinking, decoration festive table and a wonderful gift for dear people! And there are no eggs in this recipe, which is important to some.
The recipe uses a 240 ml glass for measurement.
You can prepare almonds in advance; to do this, put them in a bowl, pour hot water for 3-5 minutes, drain, pour cold water for a minute. Clean. After such blanching, the skin of the nuts is easily removed. If problems arise, run hot water again for a couple of minutes, then cold water and try cleaning again. You can also grind it in advance (simply put it in a bag or container) or before cooking. Grind into flour in a blender, but we liked the option better when the almonds are not crushed so much. In principle, you can simply finely chop the nuts with a knife.
For approximately 40 pcs:
- 225-230 g good butter room temperature (mild)
- 1/2 cup (60 g) powdered sugar for dough and 1.5 cups (180 g) for sprinkling
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
- 280 grams of flour (that's 2 cups)
- 1/2 tsp. fine salt
- 1 cup chopped almonds
- 1/2 tbsp. orange zest (grate the zest on a fine grater)
I didn't have any orange, but I'll let you know when to add the zest.
Place butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Beat with a mixer until smooth and fluffy.
Mix flour with salt and sift into a bowl with the butter mixture.
Use a mixer to bring the mixture to a homogeneous state. Or knead the dough with a spatula or spoon. The result will be a dense but tender mass.
Add nuts and orange zest(if using), stir. This can be done by hand.
You should get a thick dough. If it sticks to your hands, you can add a couple of tablespoons of flour. It didn't stick to me. The dough turned out surprisingly pleasant and flexible.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts and place them on the baking sheet at a distance of about 3 cm or more so that they do not stick together during baking. There is enough dough for two trays of cookies. If you place the balls of dough on paper in advance and then transfer them to a baking sheet, you risk being left without cookies; they will simply roll onto the floor. It’s better to make one batch, remove the finished batch from the baking sheet, cover it with fresh paper and again make balls of future cookies.
Place the baking sheet with cookies in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 11-13 minutes. They took less time for me, so keep an eye on them, they should turn a little golden. But even if yours is as tanned as mine, it’s okay. The taste will not suffer from this. Don't be alarmed if they crack a little on top, this is normal, later the cracks will be filled with powdered sugar.
Place the remaining powdered sugar in a bowl. Let the finished cookies cool for 5 minutes and roll them in it.
Allow the cookies to cool to room temperature.
And then roll in powdered sugar again! My powder was a little coarse (we made it ourselves in a coffee grinder), so it didn’t form such a dense layer as it should, but you’ll probably do better :)
Excellent and very tasty New Year's cookies ready!
Now you can eat it with your family over a cup of tea or a glass of warm milk, put it in a beautiful tin or a beautiful bag and leave it until the holidays or put it in boxes with other goodies for those who love sweets. Can be easily stored for a week in an airtight container.
Bon appetit!
