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Grain Free Snowball Cookies

The cutest gluten free and grain free snowball cookies with a delicious, nutty crunch from walnuts! These soft snowball cookies have an option to add cozy flavor with cardamom, cinnamon & orange zest, and are wonderful with a cup of coffee. They're easily made vegan and are the perfect cookie for sharing.
Course Dessert, Gluten Free, Grain Free, Low Carb
Cuisine American
Keyword gluten free snowball cookies, grain free snowball cookies, healthy snowball cookies, mexican wedding cookies, russian tea cakes, snowball cookies
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 24 cookies
Calories 155cal
Author Monique Volz of AmbitiousKitchen.com

Ingredients

  • ½ cup salted butter, softened
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Optional: zest from 1 medium orange
  • Optional: Pinch of cardamom & cinnamon
  • 1 ½ cups packed fine blanched almond flour
  • ½ cup finely chopped walnuts
  • 1 tablespoon coconut flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • For rolling:
  • ½ cup powdered sugar, for rolling the cookies

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the butter and powdered sugar for 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Next add in the vanilla extract, orange zest, cardamom, cinnamon and mix again until well combined, about 30 seconds.
  • Finally add in the dry ingredients: almond flour, walnuts, coconut flour and salt; mix on medium speed until well combined. Let the dough sit for 5-10 minutes while you clean up a bit. This is an important step as it allows the dough to thicken up so that you can roll it easily into dough balls.
  • Use a small cookie scoop to grab 1 tablespoon of dough and then use your hands to roll the dough into a ball. Place on the prepared cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 9-12 minutes until the edges just start to turn golden brown. Cool cookies for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet then transfer to a wire rack. Repeat with remaining dough.
  • Once cookies have cooled completely, add ½ cup powdered sugar to a medium bowl. Roll each cookie ball in the powdered sugar, then place back on a wire rack. Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Makes about 24 (2 dozen) cookies.

Notes

To make vegan: simply use vegan butter in the recipe.
To freeze: you can either freeze the dough or freeze the baked snowball cookies for up to 3 months! Check out all of my tips & tricks for freezing cookies here. For snowball cookies, I'd recommend re-rolling them in powdered sugar after thawing the baked cookies so that they're nice and pretty.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 155cal | Carbohydrates: 6.5g | Protein: 3.8g | Fat: 13.6g | Saturated Fat: 3.3g | Fiber: 2.2g | Sugar: 3.4g
Monique Volz of AmbitiousKitchen.com