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These delightful little orbs go by many names: Snowballs, Mexican Wedding Cakes, Pecan Puffs. Whatever you want to call them, these nutty, subtly sweet cookies are a family-friendly bake — with easy and potentially cathartic steps (crush your holiday angst while crushing pecans) for kids of all ages.
Would pair well with a tall glass of milk on Christmas Eve.
Today’s Homemade Holidays recipe comes from Free Press copy editor David Fuller and is an adaptation from an older edition of Joy of Cooking. This recipe makes about 30 small cookies.
Snowballs
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125 ml (1/2 cup) butter
30 ml (2 tbsp) icing sugar, plus 250 ml (1 cup) icing sugar in reserve
5 m (1 tsp) vanilla
250 ml (1 cup) pecans
250 ml (1 cup) cake flour or white flour, sifted
Preheat the oven to 300 F.
Beat the butter until soft, then add 30 ml (2 tbsp) icing sugar and blend until creamy. Add the vanilla.
Measure and crush the pecans. (Can use a large plastic bag and a mortar to avoid making a mess.) Sift the flour into a bowl.
Stir the crushed pecans and the flour into the butter mixture — it may be easier to do this with your hands.
Roll the dough into small balls, about 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter, and place on a lined or greased baking sheet. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
Place remaining 250 ml (1 cup) of icing sugar in a resealable plastic bag or container. After the cookies are out of the oven and have cooled a bit (but are still warm) place them in batches in the icing sugar and roll them around until they are coated.
Allow to cool completely. For best coating, roll them again gently in the icing sugar a second time when they have fully cooled. The bag or container of icing sugar can be saved for coating additional batches, if desired. This recipe can be doubled.
eva.wasney@winnipegfreepress.com
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