Description
Snowball cookies from Brazil melt hearts with their delicate powdered sugar coating and creamy condensed milk center. Rich, buttery, and irresistibly sweet, these treats invite you to savor a moment of pure culinary bliss.
Ingredients
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Main Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup finely chopped nuts
- 1 cup butter, softened
Binding Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
Flavoring Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Powdered sugar (for rolling)
Instructions
- Prepare the oven by heating to 350F (175C), ensuring a consistent temperature for baking.
- Using an electric mixer, blend butter and sweetened condensed milk until achieving a smooth, homogeneous texture.
- Incorporate vanilla extract into the creamy mixture, distributing the flavor evenly.
- Gradually introduce flour to the wet ingredients, stirring until a cohesive dough forms without overmixing.
- Gently fold chopped nuts into the dough, distributing them uniformly throughout the mixture.
- Craft small, uniform spheres of dough using your palms, placing them carefully on a lightly greased baking sheet with spacing between each cookie.
- Transfer the baking sheet to the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes, watching for a set consistency without allowing browning.
- Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool for 3-5 minutes until they can be handled safely.
- Roll each slightly warm cookie in powdered sugar, ensuring complete and even coverage to create a delicate, snowy exterior.
- Allow cookies to cool completely, during which the powdered sugar will set and create a delightful, melt-in-your-mouth coating.
Notes
- Swap out regular flour with gluten-free flour blend for those with wheat sensitivities, ensuring the same delightful texture and taste.
- Toast nuts before adding to enhance their nutty flavor and provide a deeper, more complex taste profile to the cookies.
- Control cookie size by using a small cookie scoop for uniform, perfectly round snowballs that bake evenly and look professionally crafted.
- Allow cookies to cool completely before rolling in powdered sugar to prevent clumping and achieve a smooth, even coating that looks pristine.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12-15 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 24
- Calories: 163
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 28 mg
- Fat: 11 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 16 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 31 mg