Description
These Gingerbread Snowballs are soft, buttery cookies bursting with warm spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, perfectly coated in a powdered sugar dusting. They deliver all the cozy flavors of gingerbread in a delightful bite-sized treat that's perfect for the holiday season and gift-giving.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Dough
- 1 cup Challenge Unsalted Butter (226g), softened
- ½ cup (57g) powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2 ¼ cups (279g) all purpose flour
Coating
- Powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven: Preheat your oven to 350° Fahrenheit and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper to prevent sticking and ensure even baking.
- Mix the butter and sugar: Using an electric mixer, beat the softened butter until fluffy, about 20 seconds. Add powdered sugar, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and molasses, mixing until smooth and well combined.
- Add the flour: Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and continue mixing. The dough might look crumbly at first but keep mixing, it will come together into a cohesive dough after a few minutes.
- Shape the cookies: Scoop about 1 tablespoon of dough per cookie and place each ball onto the prepared cookie sheets, spacing them evenly.
- Bake the cookies: Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes or until the bottoms of the cookies are just slightly brown.
- Coat in powdered sugar: Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool for a minute until they can be handled. Fill a small bowl with powdered sugar and roll each warm cookie in the sugar until fully coated.
- Cool and finish: Place the powdered sugar-coated cookies on a rack to cool completely. Once cooled, you may roll them again in powdered sugar for an extra snowy finish.
Notes
- This cookie recipe offers a wonderful gingerbread flavor in an easy, no-chill dough perfect for holiday baking.
- Make sure to keep mixing the dough well when adding flour; it looks crumbly initially but comes together with patience.
- Rolling the cookies in powdered sugar while still warm helps the sugar adhere better and gives a lovely coating.
- For gift-giving, pack these snowballs in airtight containers to keep them fresh.
- You can use regular unsalted butter if Challenge brand is unavailable.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 60 kcal
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 444 mg
- Fat: 4 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 6 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg
