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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!
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Course: Chocolate Cookies, Christmas, Easy Dessert, Snowball
Cuisine: American, Italian, Mexican
Keyword: Chocolate Cookies, Christmas, holiday, snowball
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 24
Author: Dan

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.