Vanilla, coconut & pecan snowball biscuits
Bake these festive nutty snowball biscuits for family and friends this Christmas season – they're the ultimate bitesize pick-me-up with an afternoon cup of tea
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- Serves: 13 persons
Ingredients
- 60g unsalted butter , softened
- 25g caster sugar
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 100g pecans , blitzed to a fine dust
- 50g desiccated coconut , blitzed to a fine dust, plus a tbsp to decorate
- 1orange , zested
- 65g plain flour
- 50g icing sugar , sifted
- 1tbsp desiccated coconut
Instructions
Step 1
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Cream together the butter and sugar with the vanilla extract until pale and fluffy. Add the blitzed pecans, coconut, orange zest and plain flour and bring together to make a rough dough. Shape into 13 balls and place on a lined baking tray. Bake for 12 mins until very lightly golden and just set. Leave to cool for 5 mins.Step 2
Mix the icing sugar with a tbsp of desiccated coconut and roll each biscuit in the icing sugar mix until well covered. Leave to cool completely, then serve. Will last for 3-4 days in an airtight container