Ginger-Macadamia Nut Snowballs Recipe

Ginger-Macadamia Nut Snowballs Recipe photo by Taste of Home

Read reviews (1)

Rate recipe

You’ll go nuts over these ginger-spiced cookies, made with love and coated with sweet confectioners’ sugar to look like snow. —Jenny Humphries, Ocean View, Hawaii

This recipe is:

Subscriber Exclusive

[X]

Rate Ginger-Macadamia Nut Snowballs Recipe

Click on stars to rate

Would you make this recipe again?

Write a review

[X]

Ginger-Macadamia Nut Snowballs Recipe

Prep: 25 min. Bake: 15 min./batch

Yield: 66 Servings

25 15 40

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup plus 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
2 teaspoons lemon extract
2-1/4 cups cake flour
1 cup chopped macadamia nuts
1 cup chopped crystallized ginger

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar until blended. Beat in lemon peel and lemon extract. Gradually beat flour into creamed mixture. Stir in macadamia nuts and ginger. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
Shape dough into 1-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 14-16 minutes or until lightly browned.
Roll warm cookies in remaining confectioners' sugar. Cool on wire racks. When cooled, roll cookies again in confectioners' sugar. Yield: about 5 dozen.

Originally published as Ginger-Macadamia Nut Snowballs in Taste of Home December/January 2013, p16