Hello ooseims!
Ready for Cookie Tip #2? This is one of the most important tips for when you're making snowball cookies or shortbread or any kind of cookie that just has butter, flour and sugar (no eggs). I get questions all the time saying cookie dough is "crumbly" or doesn't hold together.
When a cookie recipe, like snowball cookies, have no eggs, the only wet/binder in the recipe is usually butter. The problem is, it takes a LONG time sometimes for the batter to come together.
Believe me: if a dough is crumbly and supposed to be crumbly, then I would tell you in the recipe. So if it's not spelled out, then here is my tip:
JUST KEEP MIXING 🐠 (there's no mixer emoji...so think of it like Dory from Finding Nemo lol)
Doughs like shortbread and snowball cookies have just butter as a binder so mixing with all that flour takes time. It also depends on what kind of mixer you're using.
- Stand mixer goes fastest (use the paddle attachment)
- A Hand mixer will take awhile - a few minutes to up to even 10 minutes - this is because not all hand mixers are created equal. Some are faster, some are old, some are newer...sometimes people use high speed vs low speed.
- Don't even bother doing it by hand!
So basically, think like Dory: JUST KEEP MIXING and the dough WILL come together and look like a cookie dough.
I have a ton of snowball cookies on my site, but this is my mom's recipe (her Russian Tea Cakes). Get ALL my snowball cookie recipes here.
Tomorrows tip: SOUR CREAM....
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