In this bilingual (Tagalog/English) cooking tutorial, the presenter shares a personal "recipe hack" to recreate Good Shepherd's popular snowball cookies at home. After briefly describing the inspiration—tasting the original cookies and wanting a homemade version—the video walks through the full recipe: melt 1 cup of unsalted butter (specifically Magnolia Gold butter for authentic flavor), blend with 1½ cups (188 g) powdered sugar, add vanilla (1 tsp brown vanilla or ½ tsp clear vanilla), then incorporate 3 cups (375 g) sifted all‑purpose flour and ½ tsp fine salt. Coarsely chopped cashew nuts are folded in halfway through mixing. The dough is shaped into uniform balls using a tablespoon, optionally chilled for at least an hour to improve texture, then baked at 350 °F for 12–14 minutes until lightly golden. After a brief cooling period, the cookies are rolled in powdered sugar and served. Throughout, the host emphasizes key tips—using the specific butter brand, hand‑mixing for uniformity, and chilling for flavor integration—while maintaining an enthusiastic, instructional tone.
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Recently, I discovered snowballs from Good Shepherd. It's really tasty. I ate one with a thick manna, and the other one with a small manna. I don't know if it's because of my diet, but Shepherd inspired me to hack their recipe so that anytime I crave for these snowballs, I can make it at home. So, let's begin. Simulan natin, so paglagan nang natin na 1 cup na melted unsalted butter, tapos dagdagan na 1½ cups or 188 grams na powdered sugar. For the butter, make sure nagamitin ninyo yung Magnolia Gold kasi yun talaga mismo yung ginagamit Good Shepherd. So must have flavor. European butters, Australian, New Zealand. So flavors, yeah, depending on the flavor. So that's Magnolia Gold Butter. So Halloween, Halloween, completely Blend your melted butter and powdered sugar. You can use an electric mixer or you can just mix this by hand. As you can see, we blend completely the butter and powdered sugar. At this point, we will add 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavor. Ang gamit ko dito ay yung regular na brown vanilla flavor, pero kung gamit kayo nan clear vanilla flavor, use 1/2 teaspoon lang kasi medyo mas powerful yung flavor non. Haluin nilang ito nan haluin hanggang magblend in completely ang yung vanilla flavor don sa yung butter mixture. Nayo, pedi narinating idagdag yung 3 cups or 375 grams All-purpose flour. Okay, lang lang natinto is sift in para mas magin smooth at mas madaling ehalo. Lagyan narin natin ng 1/2 teaspoon of fine salt. Ayan, okay. So halu inyo lang ito. So halfway through mixing, kapag hindi pa completely moistened yung inyong dough, pedin yung idagdag ang inyong cashew nuts. So yung cashew nuts niyo should be coarsely chopped. So by hand, or by food processor, or gamit kayo na knife. So magaganito sha kalakadapan. Halunya lang eto sa dough completely. Actually, I recommend ko na by hand nyo sha yung mix at this point para mas Kasigurado kayo na talaga mag-uniformly blended ang inyong mga ingredients. Okay, so from there, ready na tayo mag-form ng mga balls. Ang gamit ko dito ay 1 tablespoon na measuring spoon, tapos para makuhanatin yung itsura ng snowballs talaga, yung Good Shepherd, taper lang yung edges, no, para irround natin yung edges, katulad ng mahi kita ninyo, which is ganito rin yung ichuran ng snowballs ng Good Shepherd. So just do this for the rest of your dough. By the way, ang snowballs ay isang klase na cookie. So itong mixture nato, ay, tinatagwag din natin dough. So buñalan yan hanggang maubos na hatyan at and bake it. There, finished. All the dough is formed into balls. You can bake it at once, but you can chill it for at least an hour, so that it will hydrate, blend in, and mix the flavors. So this is baked at 350 degrees. °F. Ako, chinil ko sha muna, tapos atshaka ko sha, ah, ibake ito. Tokay lang namakakatabiton snowballs, no kasindin na mantalago sha, ah, alsa. So ibake nilang ito for about 12 to 14 minutes, hangang yung ilalimiya will be golden brown or light brown. Tapos haya anyo lang sha for 5 minutes don sa pan chakanio sha idrej sa powdered sugar. Tapos, pelin na yé enjoy ang snowballs à la Good Shepherd.
