you want to go play in the snow but there's no snow outside do you think that we could do you want to make snowballs in the kitchen it's only a few days until christmas and you've barely had enough time to think about making homemade cookies you've been running around looking for packages wrapping getting the tree ready wait cookies gotta make cookies right so this is a recipe that is really fun easy only a few ingredients chloe how fast are we gonna make these how chloe's gonna snap that back you can't do it yes you can snack snap okay so we're going to start can you put these in can you put these in the in the food processor ready one two three one cup of walnuts you can use whole walnuts walnut pieces in the food processor we're gonna chop them up for 30 seconds because what we're looking for are just these tiny pieces of walnuts and when santa's coming down the chimney doesn't he need a cookie like this there's a little bit of protein right chloe's going to whisk up so in here we've got a cup of flour a half a teaspoon of cinnamon can i take it not yet this is the flour you can taste how about some of the powdered sugar we're gonna add our walnuts into this mixture okay you know what we're gonna do can you taste this yeah but let's let's just get this going all right how's that good tell me what you think what do you think chloe okay now while that is going to be whisked together in a second but first you know what we have to do chloe one of the most important things is where am i whispering where's your whisker it's over here but you know what you have to do butter we have a half bag half a cup which is one stick with the butter you don't want to do the butter i'll do the butter and it's ready now turn it on and what we're going to do is cream our butter don't get your fingers near it though careful whew and we're just trying to cream that butter to really soften it up and then to it we're going to add chloe can you add that what is that you want to taste it make sure no that's it looks like flour you're right powdered sugar quarter cup of powdered sugar so these cookies don't really have a lot of sugar most cookies have one two cups of sugar this only has a half a cup of powdered sugar all right so we're creaming that up now it's important halfway through we're just gonna quickly what do you think of that chloe just always scrape down the sides you can't lick it you can't lick it why can't you lick it it's butter in it do you like butter no no who doesn't like butter okay there it goes again okay now chloe guess what job you get next can you pour that in i put a half a teaspoon of vanilla in there you can dump it all because i know there's only a half a teaspoon left in there oh you did it how is it looking in there are you confident about it okay that's it see how few ingredients this takes to mix these cookies are you ready now we're gonna dump this in ready dump it a little at a time so that it doesn't make a huge mess this is one of those good recipes to make with your kids because it's not that messy look at it it's going crazy isn't it and you don't even have to chill the dough i always find that a lot of holiday cookies you have to chill the dough you know for a few hours but these are ready like that right okay let's just scrape it down one time can you eat it yeah there's no eggs in this i think you can eat it you gotta tell me what you think tell me are you feeling good about this you're feeling good about it okay you ready play one more time and then we're gonna make some balls okay okay you ready one gravy all right i think we're all done you think we're all done okay let's lift it up super simple super delicious all right i have a silpat line tray but you could also um use parchment paper oops here i'll put that over here it's going crazy and i like to use a mini scooper there's about one tablespoon in this so if you didn't have the mini scooper what are you trying to do over there you're eating off the mixer out of the way you can use these little scoopers because look chloe you know what's so fun about this look what does that look like oh snowball a snowball can i do it sure you there you go so chloe's gonna get that all ready go to town and then i've got these i baked them in a 350 degree oven and guess what we're gonna do these quilts you did it we'll make the rest of the snowballs later for this batch and guess what you're going to do this chloe are you ready chloe is going to take this is the part that makes it look like snowballs what is this you remember okay we're going to put it into the little sieve and then what do we do can you show me how to do this shaky shaky tap tap cap shake it shake it tap tap tap shaky shaky tap tap tap shake the tape you don't like that do you just a little bit of extra powdered sugar just for the beauty now what do you think okay powdered sugar okay okay attack attack and a powdered sugar how about eating a cookie should we eat one of the cookies you give me one thank you see even when you live in california you can have snowballs any time of year that's from holiday fun internet for more fast questions your recipes like this and more check out delicious.com you