Cranberry Walnut Cookie Balls
These delicious cranberry walnut cookie balls are a rich shortbread snowball cookie with cranberries and chopped walnuts, and covered in powdered sugar.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar, ⅜ cup
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups walnuts, chopped into small pieces
- ½ cup Craisins® dried cranberries, chopped into small pieces
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla on medium speed until creamy.
- Gradually beat in flour and salt until just blended.
- Add walnuts and dried cranberries. Stir.
- Using a 1" cookie scoop, or with clean hands, roll into 1" balls and place on ungreased cookie sheets 1 inch apart.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes just until bottoms are lightly browned.
- Remove from oven.
- While cookies are baking, pour powdered sugar into a shallow bowl or pie plate.
- Roll 4-5 hot cookies at a time into the powdered sugar until each cookie is well coated.
- Place cookies on wire rack to cool completely.
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Notes
Mostly adapted from The Good Housekeeping Christmas Cookbook, pg 301