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Meatball Cookies

Meatball cookies are an easy and delicious Italian-American chocolate spice cookie with chocolate chips, walnuts, raisins, and a sweet icing.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword christmas cookies, Cookie Recipe, Cookies, holiday cookies
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Author we are all magic

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups sugar 300g
  • 1 cup vegetable shortening
  • ¾ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 3 eggs large
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 9 cups All-purpose flour 1136g - I always measure the flour by weight, if you measure by cup you may wish to add 8 cups first, and then slowly add little bits more if needed. You want the dough to be handleable and not shaggy.
  • 5 tbsp cocoa can use dark cocoa if you wish
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1½ tsp allspice
  • 1½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1½ tsp ground cloves
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1½ bags semi-sweet chocolate chips standard US bag is 12oz
  • ½ cup raisins you can add more if you wish

Icing

  • 1 pound powdered sugar 455g
  • ½ cup whole milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste can use vanilla extract
  • sprinkles for decoration

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F

  2. In a stand mixer, cream together sugar and vegetable shortening on medium speed for about 5 minutes.

  3. Measure out dry ingredients, including raisins, walnuts, and chocolate chips, into a large bowl, mix together, and set aside.

  4. Add buttermilk, oil, and eggs to stand mixer and mix until incorporated.

  5. With mixer on low, slowly add dry mixture a spoonful at a time until fully incorporated.

  6. Using a cookie scoop, portion out small balls of dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

  7. Using the palms of your hands, roll each scoop of dough into a tight ball. You'll want to get out much of the air and condense the dough into a ball. The dough should not stick to your hands as there's a lot of oil in it.

  8. Place each ball of dough onto your baking sheet. They do not expand too much in baking so you can place them about 1 to 2 inches apart. I can fit 24 balls onto a large baking sheet.

  9. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly on baking sheet and then transfer to wire cooling rack to cool completely.

  10. Repeat process until all the dough is used.

Icing

  1. Add powdered sugar to a large bowl.

  2. Measure out milk and add half to the powdered sugar and mix together with a whisk. Add vanilla bean paste and mix. Add more of your milk as needed. You want the icing to be a thick consistency.

  3. Dip each cookie into your icing and put them on a wire rack. Decorate with sprinkles as desired. Allow icing to set completely before serving or storing.