Grain-Free Italian Wedding Snowball Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo)
Snowball cookies are a classic nutty, buttery, sweet holiday dessert with many forms: Italian wedding cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, or Russian tea cakes! But this almond-based recipe for Grain-Free Italian Wedding Snowball Cookies is gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and sugar-free! Just 4 ingredients, they're a healthy low-carb addition for the Christmas cookie tray!
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 15 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American. Italian
Ingredients
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- 3 Cups Super-Fine Almond Flour (not almond meal!)
- 3/4 Cup Powdered Erythritol (plus more for coating)* (or use preferred powdered sweetener)
- 1 Stick MELT Vegan/Soy-Free Butter (softened)
- 1 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, powdered sweetener, softened butter, and vanilla.
- Mix together until you have a smooth kneadable dough.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat.
- Take 1 tablespoon of dough, per cookie, and roll it into a ball, spacing out the balls on the lined baking sheet.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Remove, let cool just enough so you can safely handle them.
- Pour out some powdered sweetener on a plate and roll the warm cooking in the sweetener.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely on a wire rack, but roll the cooled cookies one more time in more powdered sweetener before serving.
Notes
*Have another 2-3 cups for easy rolling in the extra powdered sweetener. I just poured some on a plate, I didn't measure!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2