Almond Snowballs
These buttery almond snowball cookies are a fantastic festive treat that taste great alongside a hot chocolate or a cup of coffee after a hard day Christmas shopping!
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 115 grams butter or non-dairy butter for a vegan alternative
- 35 grams icing sugar plus extra to dust
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 0.5 tsp vanilla paste
- 175 grams plain flour
- 50 grams ground almonds
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6 and line a baking tray with grease proof paper.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter, icing, vanilla paste and almond extra until soft and creamy.
- Stir in the plain flour and ground almonds until it just starts to come together as a dough.
- Shape the dough into balls round 1 inch wide.
- Place on to the baking tray roughly 1 inch apart.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until they are firm to the touch but not browned.
- Remove the cookies from the baking tray and place on to a cooling rack.
- Dust lightly with icing sugar.