Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies

These Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies are easy, quick to fix, delicious, and they freeze well. You may even have the ingredients in your house right now. Also known as Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies but in our house we just call them Snowballs They are the delectable cookie with a thousand names.

Ingredients For Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies

  • 1 cbutter softened
  • 1/2 cpowdered sugar
  • 1/4 tspsalt
  • 1 1/2 tspvanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 cflour
  • 1 cfinely chopped pecans
  • 1 cpowdered sugar for dusting

How To Make Buttery Pecan Snowball Cookies

  • 1Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • 2In stand mixer cream butter and powdered sugar. Turn to low and mix in salt, vanilla, flour and pecans. Roll into one inch balls. Place on parchment covered baking sheets a few inches part. Bake for 11 minutes. Do not over bake