Walnut Balls Recipes

MOM'S WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Using a good quality chefs knife carefully chop walnuts until 2 cups is achieved. Finely chopped walnuts can also be purchased at the grocery store.
• Preheat oven to 375℉.
• Using a stand mixer or hand held mixer cream together butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• In a separate sized mixing bowl measure and sift flour and salt. Mix well into butter mixture until a soft dough forms. Stir in walnuts.
• Using a teaspoon break apart pieces of dough and then form by rolling between clean hands.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 12- 15 mins or until lightly golden brown. Using a spatula, remove from cookie sheet and let cool slightly. The cooling helps to prevent crumbling when rolling in powdered sugar.
• Place powdered sugar onto a plate and while cookies are still warm roll in sugar. If desired, roll a second time for an additional coating.

WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until fluffy.
• Sift flour and salt together; add to creamed mixture.
• Mix well; stir in walnuts.
• Shape dough into walnut-sized balls.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheet with spatula.
• When still warm but cool enough to handle, roll in powdered sugar.

WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Stir in the crackers, walnuts and cheese. Coat hands with cooking spray; shape mixture into 1-in. balls. Place in a 13x9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray., In a small saucepan, combine sauce ingredients. Bring to a boil. Pour over walnut balls. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25 minutes or until a thermometer reads 160°.

OLD-FASHIONED WALNUT BALLS RECIPE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 375 F. Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla in a stand mixer or with an electric hand beater at medium speed until fluffy; the butter should approximately double in size and turn pale yellow.
• Sift flour and salt together.
• Add it in two or three batches to the creamed mixture; mix gently to incorporate it between each addition. Stir in walnuts.
• Pinch a walnut-size chunk of dough off, roll it into a ball, and place it on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, leaving about 1 inch of space between each ball.
• Bake cookies for 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer walnut balls from cookie sheet to a wire rack using ​a spatula. Cool for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Roll cooled cookies in sifted confectioners sugar.

WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cream the sugar and butter. Add flour, nuts, salt and vanilla. Mix well. Batter will be very crumbly.
• Shape into 1 inch balls. Bake for 15 minutes, remove from oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes. Roll in super fine sugar. When cool, roll again, if desired.

DELICIOUS WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• In large bowl, w/ mixer on medium speed, beat butter, granulated sugar, and vanilla until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low; gradually beat in flour and salt just until blended, occasionally scraping bowl. Stir in walnuts.
• Shape dough by rounded measuring teaspoons into 1-inch balls. Place balls, 1 inch apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet. Bake cookies 13-15 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned.
• Place confectioners' sugar in pie plate. While cookies are hot, with metal spatula, transfer 4 or 5 cookies at a time to pie plate with confectioners' sugar. gently turn cookies w/ fork to generously coat with sugar. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely.
• Repeat with remaining dough and confectioners' sugar. Store cookies in tightly covered container at room temperature up to 1 week or in freezer up to 3 months. Dust with additional confectioners' sugar before serving if you like.

CHERRY-WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Drain maraschino cherries on paper towels; pat dry to remove any excess liquid.
• Set cherries aside.
• Beat butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
• Beat in the 1/2 cup powdered sugar, almond extract, and vanilla until combined, scraping side of bowl occasionally.
• Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer.
• Stir in any remaining flour, nuts, and cherries with a wooden spoon.
• Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
• Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until bottoms are lightly brown.
• Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets on wire racks.
• Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar to coat and transfer cookies to wire racks and cool completely.
• If desired, roll cooled cookies in additional powdered sugar before serving. Makes about 48 balls.
• *NOTE: To toast nuts, spread them in a single layer in a shallow baking pan. Bake in a preheated 325F oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until nuts are slightly golden brown, stirring once or twice. Cool completely. Chop nuts and set aside.
• TO STORE: Place cookies in layers separated by pieces of waxed paper in an airtight container; cover. Store at room temperature for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw cookies, if frozen, before serving.

NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE WALNUT BALLS

Steps:

• Mix well, chocolate crumbs, confectioners sugar, walnuts, semisweet chocolate pieces.
• Add corn syrup, orange juice; mix well.
• Butter hands and form mixture into 1-inch balls. Roll in cocoa powder, walnuts, iciing sugar, coconut, etc.
• Store in tightly covered container to ripen.
• Can be made weeks ahead if you wish.