Peppermint Snowball Cookies With Chocolate Chips (No Nuts)
Christmas snowball cookies are traditional snowball cookies made without nuts. The cookies are loaded with mini chocolate chips and mint extract, colored bright green for visual effect, and coated in powdered sugar. They’re great for Christmas time as a holiday treat and home-baked gift.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (227g) unsalted butter softened
- ⅔ cup (65g) powdered sugar sifted
- 2 ¼ cup (270g) all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-2 teaspoon mint or peppermint extract
- green food gel coloring
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- additional powdered sugar for coating, about 1 cup
Instructions
- Beat the butter and powdered sugar with an electric mixer with a paddle attachment until light and fluffy.
- Mix in the flour, salt, and mint extract just until combined.
- Add in the food color (about 3-5 drops, depending on the color intensity you want to achieve)
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop out one tablespoon of dough at a time and form into a ball. Place balls on the prepared cookie sheet.
- Cover and refrigerate dough for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Bake cookies for 8 to 9 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet.
- Line another large baking sheet with parchment paper and dust liberally with or until cool to touch. While cookies are still warm gently dip them in the powdered sugar and set aside. Let cookies cool completely.
- Roll the cookies in a large bowl with powdered sugar (1 cup of sugar), until coated completely or a few green spots peeking through here and there. For even coating, repeat the process a couple of times.
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