Gluten and Nut Free Snowball Cookies
The Snow Ball Cookies - gluten, dairy and nut free are a fantastic holiday cookie. A rich, buttery shortbread cookie that’s studded with chopped sunflower seeds and rolled in powdered sugar.
These are a perfect addition to your allergy friendly holiday cookie list. They are super easy to make and only take a few ingredients.
To make these cookies, you add all the ingredients except the powdered sugar in a bowl. The sunflower seeds should be roughly chopped. If the seeds are small then you do not need to chop.
These cookies should not be made too big, you only want about 1 tablespoon of dough per cookie. Also they should be shaped into rounds and not flatten out.
These cookies only need to be bake for about 15 minutes. Once they are out of the oven, let the cookies cool for about 5 minutes and then roll them in powdered sugar. Once they have cooled completely, roll the cookies one more time in the powdered sugar.
Free From
- 🍪 Gluten: Use your favorite gluten free all purpose flour.
- 🍪 Tree Nuts: I used sunflower seeds but you can use any of your favorite seeds. Use dried cranberries or chocolate chips. You can simply leave out them out too
- 🍪 Dairy Free: Use dairy free butter substitute.
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- 55 mins
- Makes 30
- Easy
Ingredients
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Cookie Dough
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| 1 cup gluten free all-purpose flour | |
| 1 cup sunflower seeds (see cook`s note) | |
| 1/4 cup granulated sugar | |
| 1/8 teaspoon salt | |
| 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract | |
| 1/2 cup dairy free butter substitute, softened | |
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coating
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| 1 cup powdered sugar |
Steps
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1
Done
20 sec
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2
Done
10 mins
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3
Done
10 mins
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4
Done
15 mins
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5
Done
20 mins
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7
Done
20 sec
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Cook Notes
- The batter will be super crumbly, press into the palm of your hands firmly to shape into balls
- Corn Free: if you are unable to use the powdered sugar because of cornstarch, try grinding coarse sugar in a coffee grinder and use that for coating.
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I haven't ever made a nut free version of snowballs and cannot wait to try this out - these look amazing!
ReplyDeleteawesome do try
DeleteSnowballs are one of my favorite christmas treats! This looks like a great option if you can't have nuts!
ReplyDeleteyes they are delicious
DeleteLove these snowballs.. just awesome..
ReplyDeletethank you
DeleteThese look awesome. Just like my mom used to make!
ReplyDeleteLove these snowballs! Such a great allergy-friendly recipe for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteSo nice that you've made an easy gluten-free version of these cookies. So great to be able to make a Chrismtas favorite.
ReplyDeleteawww these are soooo cute!!! my kid would love these
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