Almond Snowballs
photo by Pumpkie
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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24-36 snowballs
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup softened butter
- 1⁄3 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 ounces packages almond paste
- edible glitter or coarse sugar crystals
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For the Almond Frosting mix until smooth
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 4 -5 teaspoons milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Beat or mix together flour, butter, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla.
- Cut the almond paste into 1/2-inch slices, then cut slices into 1/4ths.
- Shape 1-inch ball of cookie dough around each piece of almond paste; roll gently and form a ball.
- Place 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until bottoms of cookies are golden brown.
- Remove to a wire rack.
- Cool for 30 minutes; dip tops into Almond Frosting, then into glitter or coarse sugar.
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Reviews
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These are delicious and beautiful -- and easy to make as well! The only thing I would like to figure out how to improve upon is how to place the almond paste so that it does not tend to come out of the cookie in one or two chunks when biting into the cookie, leaving the remaining cookie shell behind. Next time I will either put food coloring in the frosting or dip them in something other than sugar crystals, as the sugar crystals were a little too prevelant in this cookie for our tastes. All in all, though, a delicious and wonderfully easy recipe, and a beautiful looking result! Thanks for this recipe! Dianne
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
EdsGirlAngie
LaSalle County, Illinois