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10-12
Servings
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10 min
Preparation Time
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10 min
Cook Time
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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
Cooking Instructions
- Heat oven to 325°F.
- Beat first four ingredients until creamy.
- Add combined flour, oats, pecans and salt; mix well.
- Shape rounded teaspoonfuls into balls.
- Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 15 to 18 minutes or until bottoms are light golden brown.
- Roll in powdered sugar while warm.
- Remove to wire rack.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
- Reroll in powdered sugar.
- ABOUT 4 DOZEN VARIATION: Roll in powdered sugar only once.
- 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.
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