Nut balls cookies

Oh Italy, in all of your hazelnut glory. Hazelnut biscotti, hazelnut spread, fresh hazelnut from the tree, pralines, truffles, and how can I forget Italy's most popular hazelnut treat, the gelato. And what would the famous Bacio Perugina chocolate be without its signature hazelnut on top? Yes, indeed, Italy, the world's second largest producer of hazelnuts,

Sweet and nutty pecan snowball cookies (Russian tea cakes or Mexican wedding cookies) are little melt-in-your-mouth balls of buttery shortbread with nuts.

Italian butterball cookies are soft, buttery, melt in your mouth deliciousness. Add these to any holiday cookie tray! Enjoy!

Cookie making is a family tradition at the holidays. Make these pecan nut ball cookies and share memories with your family.

My great grandma's recipe (duh). The combination of confectioners' sugar and cake flour makes them really melt in your mouth. Don't try to double unless you've got a really big mixer!

Melt in your mouth Pecan Snowballs. These buttery shortbread, pecan snowball cookies are a classic for the Christmas Holiday season. Snowball cookies are an easy 7-ingredient, eggless Christmas cookie recipe the whole family will love.

No holiday cookie tin would be complete without at least a few Noel nut balls, rich nut-and-butter domes, rolled in confectioners' sugar to resemble miniature snowballs. In Martha's family, the cookie dough was traditionally made with a touch of bourbon (or orange juice), for extra flavor.

Date-nut balls made with pecans and crispy rice cereal are a "must-have" for the holiday cookie tin.

Cookie making is a family tradition at the holidays. Make these pecan nut ball cookies and share memories with your family.

These classic pecan shortbread cookies called Butter Balls, Snowballs, and Mexican Wedding Cakes are everyone's favorite "poppable" cookie.