Italian Snowball Cookies With Orange And Lemon
Add a touch of Italian flair to your holiday cookie boxes with these delicious citrus snowball cookies. Made with fresh lemon and orange zest, these cookies are sure to be a hit at any gathering.
Servings: 2 dozen (approx)
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- the zest of one lemon with a microplane or zester
- the zest of 1 orange with a microplane or zester
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 1 large egg
Decorating
- 1 cup of powdered sugar in small bowl
Instructions
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.2 cups all purpose flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- Using electric mixer, beat butter, lemon zest and orange zest in large bowl until light.¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature, the zest of one lemon, the zest of 1 orange
- Add ½ cup sugar and ¼ cup powdered sugar and beat until fluffy.½ cup sugar, ¼ cup powdered sugar
- Beat in egg.1 large egg
- Add dry ingredients.
- Using spoon, stir until mixture forms a crumbly dough. You can use your hands to mix it together as well.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Take 1 heaping teaspoon of cookie dough at a time and roll into a ball in your hands. If the dough is dry just squish it in your hands to warm the butter in the dough and try rolling it again.
- Transfer cookies to ungreased nonstick baking sheets, spacing ½ inch apart.
- Repeat this process until you rolled all of your dough into cookie balls.
- Bake until cookies turn lightly brown on bottoms, about 10-15 minutes. At 10 minutes I like to check the cookies by gently lifting up one cookie on the pan and looking at the bottom to see if it is a brown.
- Once they are done, remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack
- Let cookies cool completely then using a small spoon or fork, transfer cookies to a bowl of powdered sugar, rolling them around so they get nice and coated.1 cup of powdered sugar in small bowl
- Repeat this process until you have coated all your cookies with powdered sugar.
- Dust with a little more powdered sugar before serving.
Notes
The recipe originally comes from Epicurious and over the years I have made my own adjustments to suit my own taste.
Nutrition
Calories: 708kcal | Carbohydrates: 161g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 612mg | Potassium: 136mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 65g | Vitamin A: 3IU | Calcium: 196mg | Iron: 6mg
Nutrition Values are estimates only.
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