Gingerbread Snowball Cookies
These gingerbread snowball cookies are shortbread with a holiday glow-up—soft, buttery, crumbly, and dusted like they’ve been out singing carols in a blizzard. No nuts. No chilling. Just fast, festive, powdered sugar–coated joy.
Servings 42
Calories 71kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- ½ cup powdered sugar plus about ½ cup more for rolling the warm cookies in
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt if using table salt decrease the measurement to ⅓ teaspoon
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg freshly grated from whole nutmegs if possible
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 tablespoon unsulfured molasses I use Grandma's Molasses
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Line a baking sheet with silpat or parchment paper.
- Cream butter until light and fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and molasses; and mix on medium-low speed until smooth and well blended.
- Add the flour slowly, mixing until well blended. Dough will look crumbly.
- Roll in tablespoon sized balls.
- Put on the baking sheet - keep them about an inch apart.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are light golden brown on the bottoms.
- Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes.
- Put about ½ cup of powdered sugar in a large bowl.
- Roll the warm cookies in the powdered sugar to completely coat them.
- Let cool completely.
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Notes
Storage:
You can store these in an airtight container for several days at room temperature or freeze for up to 3 months.
Tips:
- Cool your Christmas snowball cookies slightly on a wire rack before rolling them in powdered sugar. Too warm and the powdered sugar may melt but if the warm cookies cool too much then the powdered sugar won’t stick.
- Chilling your cookie dough in the refrigerator for a short time can help you to roll your cookies into smooth cookie dough balls
- These may crumble during shipping.
Nutrition
Calories: 71kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 67mg | Potassium: 16mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 135IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg
