Pecan Snowballs

Prep Time:

10 min

Cook Time:

10 min

Total Time:

20 min

Servings:

Add Pecan Snowballs to your list of family traditions. These soft and buttery pecan cookies are a perfect way to celebrate Christmas and the holidays. Each batch of these festive cookies make plenty to share and are perfect for a holiday cookie exchange. After baking coat these cookies in powdered sugar for cookies that are white as snow.

Ingredients

1 cup butter flavor crisco
3/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp milk or water
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
1/4 tsp salt (optional)
Powdered sugar

How to make it

1

Heat oven to 325°F.
2

Beat first four ingredients until creamy.
3

Add combined flour, oats, pecans and salt; mix well.
4

Shape rounded teaspoonfuls into balls.
5

Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 15 to 18 minutes or until bottoms are light golden brown.
6

Roll in powdered sugar while warm.
7

Remove to wire rack.
8

Cool completely on wire rack.
9

Reroll in powdered sugar.
10

ABOUT 4 DOZEN VARIATION: Roll in powdered sugar only once.
11

Microwave 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces and 1 tsp Crisco at HIGH 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth; drizzle over cookies.