Name: Christmas Italian Wedding Cookies (Vegan)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1.5 cups vegan butter; 3/4 cup ground walnuts ((or almonds)); 3/4 cup ground hazelnuts; 3 tsp vanilla extract ( (or 1 tsp almond extract)); 3 cups all purpose flour; 3/4 cup powdered sugar (+ more for dusting)

The best vegan Italian wedding cookies recipe a.k.a. Christmas snowball cookies made with walnuts and hazelnuts then coated in fluffy powdered sugar just like a snowball. One bowl, only 7 ingredients and ready in 30 minutes start to finish.

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Italian Wedding Cookies

Also known as Italian snowball or Christmas cookies, Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cakes, the holidays are simply not complete without a big batch of these goodies.

Neither are traditional Italian weddings of course, where you’ll always find a large dessert table loaded with cookies for the guests. Sometimes even the cake itself is made out of cookies, imagine that!

Christmas Snowball Cookies!

With all the vegan butter options available to us nowadays there’s really no excuse not to make these treats more often and make them totally dairy-free and cruelty-free.

Excuse me while I do my cookie happy dance now!

Best vegan Italian wedding cookies recipe with walnuts and hazelnuts.

You’ll Love These Cookies:

Quick & Easy

Nutty & Crumbly

Egg Free

Perfectly Sweet

Blissful

Fail Proof

Christmasy

Melt in Your Mouth

Authentic Italian Recipe.

Can I Freeze Wedding Cookies ?

Yes but only do so before baking. Shape the dough into golfball sizes and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet in the freezer for a couple of hours or until solid. Transfer to a freezer proof glass container with parchment paper in between each layer of the cookies and cover with a lid. Bake within two months of freezing.

Storage

Store your cookies at room temperature in a glass container and loosely cover with a lid or aluminum foil for up to 10 days.

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Christmas Italian Wedding Cookies (Vegan)

The best vegan Italian wedding cookies recipe a.k.a. Christmas snowball cookies made with walnuts and hazelnuts then coated in fluffy powdered sugar like a snowball. One bowl, only 7 ingredients and ready in 30 minutes start to finish.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Christmas cookies, Italian Wedding Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings people

Calories 484kcal

Author Florentina

Ingredients

1.5 cups vegan butter
3/4 cup ground walnuts (or almonds)
3/4 cup ground hazelnuts
3 tsp vanilla extract (or 1 tsp almond extract)
3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup powdered sugar + more for dusting

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Instructions

Preheat your oven to 325”F.
In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter and 3/4 cup of the powder sugar until fluffy.
Add the vanilla extract and then little by little add the ground walnuts and hazelnuts. Mix until combined.
Start adding in the flour little by little until mixed in.
Prepare your largest cookie sheet and using a small spoon form the cookies into rounds, the size of a golfball or smaller. You should have about 45 cookies.
Arrange all the cookies on the baking sheet without touching each other. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool off for a few minutes before rolling them over in powdered sugar. Dust with more powdered sugar on top before serving.

Notes

You can replace the walnuts and hazelnuts with a mix of your favorite nuts, pistachios, almonds and pecans work well here too. Maybe even add a handful of mini chocolate chips into the mix.