Description
Festive, buttery Cherry Snowball Cookies packed with chopped maraschino cherries and rolled in powdered sugar. Easy to make, hard to resist, and perfect for holidays or gifting!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup Unsalted butter – Softened
- ½ cup Powdered sugar – For the dough
- 2¼ cups All-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract – Or use almond extract for variation
- ⅛ tsp Salt – Skip if using salted butter
- ½ cup Maraschino cherries – Drained, patted dry, and chopped
- Powdered sugar – For rolling (about 1 cup, as needed)
- ½ tsp Almond extract – Swap for vanilla or use in combination
- ¼ cup Chopped nuts – Pecans, walnuts, almonds (optional)
- 1–2 tbsp Cherry juice – For color or flavor, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment.
- Drain, dry, and chop maraschino cherries.
- Cream butter and sugar, then mix in vanilla, flour, salt, and cherries.
- Shape dough into balls and bake until lightly golden.
- Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar, cool, then roll again.
Notes
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 28 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 50 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 14 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg