If you make just one holiday or Christmas cookie this year, you can’t go wrong with these soft homemade snowball cookies!

How To Make Snowball Cookies
This is the cookie recipe that completely takes over Pinterest every December!
With just FOUR ingredients, they’re so easy to make that it’s almost impossible to find an excuse not to try them! And once you do make these charming homemade snowball cookies, they will hook you for life with their soft and buttery deliciousness.
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Mexican Wedding Cookies
This recipe is my own spin on the popular snowball cookie recipe my grandmother used to make every year for Christmas.
You can find many versions similar to hers, both online and in cookbooks, and they often go by different names, including Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes, Butterballs, Polvorones, Meltaways, and–of course–Snowball Cookies. **Edit: A huge thank you to People Magazine for featuring this recipe!

Snowball Cookies With Almonds
While the original cookie recipe calls for walnuts, these versatile homemade Mexican wedding cookies can also be made with almonds or pecans. I’ve never tried another nut (or nut free snowball cookies) but would be interested to know if they might also work with macadamia nuts, cashews, or even pistachios!
Other variations you might want to try include adding a few drops of vanilla or almond extract to the dough, forming the cookies into different shapes, or stirrin...