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.
Servings 10 people
Calories 484kcal
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
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.
Nutrition
Calories: 484kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Sodium: 220mg | Potassium: 88mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 1295IU | Vitamin C: 0.5mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 2.4mg