Picky and Healthy

Previous Christmas Cookie Posts:

Christmas Cookies # 1
Christmas Cookies # 2

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Here is my final Christmas cookie recipe for the year. These are what I’ve always called
snowballs. The recipe can be found here.

I wanted to give them a little twist so I decided to make them with Candy Cane Hershey Kisses

I ground my own almonds in the blender

And I did one of my favorite cookie tricks which is using salted butter no matter what the recipe calls for

Here’s the butter sugar and vanilla

And here it is half-way through my extensive creaming regimen

And when finished. Notice the difference?

Here’s the dough all mixed together after it’s been chilled

I’ve found that the best way to put the kiss inside is to make a flat disk of dough (I like mine really small)

And then put the kiss in the middle

And then roll it up into a ball

The only annoying part is unwrapping all the kisses

For some reason I don’t really like the candy cane kisses by themselves so none were sneaking in my mouth as I went along

I rolled half the balls in 2 different shades of green sprinkles so they’re ornaments rather than snowballs.

Here’s the other half. As you can see I rolled them in the traditional powdered sugar.

They’re delicious cookies. I would definitely recommend them!