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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    60

    little cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Celebrate Every Day: A Year's Worth of Favorite Recipes for Festive Occasions, Big and Small

By Amy Emberling, Lindsay-Jean Hard, Lee Vedder and Corynn Coscia

Published 2024

  • About

For a sweet kindness, try our Nutty Butterball Cookies. Beloved the world over, butterballs are truly international, making them a perfect fit for sharing with friends or neighbors on World Kindness Day. Depending upon where you’re from, they’re known by lots of different names. Here in America, they are Southern pecan balls, pecan melt-aways, snow drops, snowballs, or just simply butterballs. Around the world, they are polvoróns (Mexican wedding cookies), Russian tea cakes, Viennese sugar