Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies
For all Christmas Chocolate lovers, these rich, melt-in-your-mouth Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies are absolutely the recipe to try!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate
- optional additional powdered sugar for rolling about 1/2 – 1 cup
Instructions
- Preaheat oven to 350°. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream sugar,butter and vanilla in a large bowl, then add flour, cocoa, salt and pecans to form a cookie dough.
- Stir in the chocolate chips. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Scoop 1 tablespoon balls of dough and place on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown and the tops are no longer glossy.
- Let stand on cookie sheet about 2-3 minutes, then gently roll each one in powdered sugar. Let cookies cool. Once they cool, roll again in powdered sugar.
- Store loosely covered.
Notes
* You could try omitting the mini chocolate chips but am not sure they'd be sweet enough, but feel free to experiment.