Chocolate Snowball Cookies
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This chocolate snowball cookie recipe makes the tastiest Festive Chocolate Snowball Cookies you will ever try! These rich chocolate cookies are coated in powdered sugar that are exploding with chocolate flavor! Red and green mini candy-coated m&m’s are hidden crunchy candies inside for a surprise!
How fun is this chocolate snowball cookie recipe for Christmas? You’ll also love these Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies, these M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies, these Christmas Cookie Bars and of course our Santa’s Christmas Trash Cookies!
Why We Love These Festive Chocolate Snowball Cookies
This chocolate snowball cookie recipe are a favorite at Christmas time for sure. You usually see these shortbread type cookies on a cookie platter or a cookie exchange sometime during the month of December. We’re not complaining!
I love how they are rolled in powdered sugar to give them a snowy vibe. And even better when I bite into their melt-in-your-mouth whipped shortbread texture!
Easy to make recipe and fun for the whole family to get involved!
Chocolate fudgy cookies are the best! Especially when they have Christmas colored m&ms inside and deliciously coated with powder sugar! Talk about yum! The only thing better than Christmas cookies is Christmas cookies with friends!
Snowball Cookie History
Ingredients You Need
Chocolate Snowball Cookies Recipe
- unsalted butter
- powdered sugar
- unsweetened cocoa powder, like Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour
- salt
- mini m&ms or chocolate chips or chopped nuts
- Additional powdered sugar for rolling
or chocolate chips or chopped nuts
How to Make Chocolate Snowball Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, using mixer, mix the butter, ½ cup powdered sugar, cocoa, and vanilla until fluffy. Add flour and salt and mix until the dough comes together. Stir in any add-ins, m&m’s, chocolate chips or nuts.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon balls of dough and place cookie dough balls on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown and the tops are no longer glossy. Remove from oven and cool for 5-10 minutes, until you can handle them.
- Let them cool for 5-10 minutes enough to handle and roll accordingly in the powdered sugar.
- Fill a small bowl with 1 cup powdered sugar and roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. Re-roll them in more powdered sugar if desired.
How Long Do Chocolate Snowball Cookies Last?
Snowball cookies last for at 3-4 days at room temperature or refrigerated, stored in airtight containers or zip-lock bags.
How to Freeze Cookies
These are the ideal make-ahead cookie! They will keep in the freezer for up to 6 months.
To freeze, store in containers instead of zip-lock bags, because they will stay fragile when frozen in the freezer. That way they don’t crumble.
Pro Tips
- Watch the cookies closely to be sure that they do not overbake. Overbaking cookies will make cookies dry and possibly crumbly. These cookies will continue baking once you take them out of the oven, so let them set up 5-10 minutes before handling them and rolling them in the powdered sugar.
- Make sure your cookie dough is not warm when you put a batch in the oven. Warm cookie dough will lead to spreading and these cookies are meant to be round, like snowballs.
- Do not coat with powdered sugar immediately after cookies come out of oven. The powdered sugar will just melt into the cookies, leaving you a snowless cookie. Let them cool for 5-10 minutes enough to handle and roll accordingly.
These Festive Chocolate Snowball Cookies are also really fun for kids to help roll into balls and then roll in the powdered sugar. It may get a bit messy, but the kids will love it, right? Yay! Let’s make some fun!
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Chocolate Snowball Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (Hershey’s Special Dark)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or chocolate extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup mini m&ms or chocolate chips or chopped nuts
- 1 ½ cups Additional powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Using mixer, mix the butter, ½ cup powdered sugar, cocoa, and vanilla until fluffy. Add flour and salt and mix until the dough comes together. Stir in the m&m’s, chocolate chips or nuts.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon balls of dough and place on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown and the tops are no longer glossy.
- Remove from oven and cool for 5-10 minutes, until you can handle them to make snowball cookies.
- Fill a small bowl with 1 cup powdered sugar and roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. Re-roll them in more powdered sugar if desired.
Notes
- Watch the cookies closely to be sure that they do not overbake. Overbaked snowballs will be very dry.
Thank you so much Ben!!
I love this type of cookies for their ultimately delectable and tender texture. These ones look beautiful! I wouldn’t have expected to see candy in such cookies, so that’s definitely a nice surprise 🙂