Gingerbread Snowballs
Gingerbread Snowballs are an easy snowball cookie recipe that tastes like gingerbread, perfect for gifting during the holidays.
Equipment
- Electric mixer
- cookie sheets
- Parchment paper
- Mixing bowl
Ingredients
Butter and Sugar
- 1 cup Challenge Unsalted Butter softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
Spices
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
Flour and Molasses
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- Powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
Baking Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Mix butter with an electric mixer until fluffy. About 20 seconds. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and molasses and mix until mixture is smooth.
- Add flour and mix until the dough comes together. This will take time.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of dough and place on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown. Remove from oven and cool for just a minute, until you can handle them.
- Fill a small bowl with additional powdered sugar and roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. Place on a rack to cool.
- (Once cookies are cooled, you may want to re-roll them in more powdered sugar.)
Notes
These cookies will look crumbly while mixing but will come together into dough if mixed properly.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 60kcalCarbohydrates: 6gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 444mgSugar: 1g
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