Buy Now → Peppermint Snowballs!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: About 20 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 2 cups flour
- 20 hard peppermint candies, crushed into fine crumbs
- 1/2 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Beat butter with mixer until fluffy. Add 1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar, followed by peppermint extract and then flour until everything is well-combined. Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll chilled dough into approximately one inch balls and roll in peppermint candy, pressing slightly to get the candy to stick to the sides,
- Bake for 20 minutes. As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, roll while still hot in powdered sugar, and sprinkle additional peppermint candy on top.
Notes
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