How to make Snowball cookies without an oven?

This butter cookies baked without oven goes with many names. It is called Kuih Makmur or Momo in my country. Maamoul cookie in the middle east. Russian tea cakes by the Russians. It is also nicknamed snowball cookies by some. 

I will be making a no oven butter cookie recipe that has tested time. It is a recipe that was passed down for years through our ancestor and they did not have any oven. 

This ancient butter cookie recipe crosses borders until it finally reaches the shores of my city. Back then they did not have any electricity and no refrigeration therefore butter was not the ideal choice. 

Ghee was used because it does not get rancid easily. In my recipe I opt to go with butter instead.

The trick to cook this butter cookie without oven is to fry the flour before you add the rest of the ingredient.

This no oven butter cookie taste buttery flavor and a nutty aroma. 

One of the main ingredient is peanuts. In this recipe I used raw peanuts which I fry dry without oil on low heat. Taste a peanut to see if it is thoroughly cooked before lifting them off the heat and go to the next step.

The skin will easily loosened by squeezing between your fingers. Place the nuts into a food processor and grind until fine. In my case I decided to go old school and use my stone mortar instead

INGREDIENT

100g Salted butter

60g Icing Sugar

180g Flour

60g Peanuts

Fry the flour without oil on a wok or a large pan. Keep stirring on low flame. When the flour is cooked you will smell a nutty aroma and the color has an off white to it. Switched off the flame immediately. Take note the flour burns very fast from this point on.

Place the cooked flour and icing sugar in a bowl. Use a whisk to mixed them together then pour butter into the flour mixture. Stir the flour butter mixture until well combined.

The flour butter mixture will have a textured of rough lumpy crumbs. Pour the crushed peanuts into the mixture. Use your hands and make tiny balls from the dough

Roll the balls on icing sugar and they are ready to be eaten. They do not need to be baked because the flour is cooked from frying earlier. However if you are worried about hygiene then baked the cookies for 5 minutes in the oven before you roll them in icing sugar.

Do not make these balls large because it is difficult to bite half. It is very delicate and will crumble all over the place. People usually just pop in a whole ball into the mouth thus avoiding the crumbling pieces.