For day 2 of our 12 Days of Sweets we were part of the Christmas Cookie Swap organized by Julie at White Lights on Wednesday! This time instead of shipping off our cookies we mailed our recipes to our matches to bake. I love this idea! It’s fun to bake cookies and find new recipes, right?! I was so lucky to be partnered up with Cristina from Just My Crazy Kitchen! She has a great blog. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out hop over and say hi. So, I received this recipe from Cristina for Chocolate Snowballs. They are a family favorite for her. Here’s what she says about this recipe:
Chocolate Snowballs! Don’t they just sound so festive? My aunt gave us this recipe. On Christmas Eve, we all get together and everyone brings their Christmas cookies. Then, we share everyone’s cookies. It’s like a really massive cookie swap. My mom is one of eight children, so if everyone brings cookies, we can have up to about 40 dozen cookies. These are one of my favorites. I don’t like nuts, so I usually add more chocolate. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
I love family Christmas traditions. That’s why I love Christmas so much. There are so many different family traditions happening and every year there is a new one born! These cookies are delicious and so easy to make. I thought I had let them cool enough before putting on the powdered sugar but I don’t think I did so you may want to have more patience than I do and let them cool all the way before you roll in the sugar or maybe just do two coats. I really recommend joining in the fun next year, you don’t even have to have a blog to get in on the fun. This year you can see some of the recipes that were shared below. Check them out!
Ingredients
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 cup chopped nuts pecans or walnuts, I use walnuts
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Sift flour and salt.
- Blend butter, sugar, and vanilla.
- Beat eggs into creamed mixture.
- Blend dry ingredients, nuts and chocolate chips into mixture.
- Shape into 1 inch balls.
- Place on ungreased baking sheet
- Bake 15-20 minutes
- Cool and roll in powdered sugar
Video
Nutrition
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Cristina says
I’m so glad you liked them! Your picture is making me hungry. I might have to go make these like right now. =)
Aubrey says
I’m glad you liked the picture! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe with us, it is so great.
Myrna Kasick says
Those look good, and I just happen to have all the ingredients (don’t you love when that happens?). I will be making these this afternoon.
Bonny Lee says
Just double checking on the recipe – the ingredients call for 1 egg, and the directions say “eggs”. Thanks!
Aubrey says
Sorry about that Bonny. It’s one egg. 🙂
Yvonne says
my mom used to make a chocolate cookie, shaped like a snowball, we called them do do’s, don’t know why, they were very good.
5cps. flour
2cp. sugar
1 1/2cps.butter
4 eggs
3 1/2 teas.baking powder
1/8 teas. salt
1 teas. vanilla
1/2 teas. cloves
1 cp.nuts
1/2 teas. cinnamon
1/4 cp. cocoa
1/4 cp. coffee
1/4 cp. milk
1/2 teas. nutmeg
2 drops of red food coloring
1/2 teas. allspice
1/4 cp. whiskey or rum.
mix all dry ingredients in on bowl
mix all wet ingredients in another bowl
beat eggs before adding to wet ingredients
roll into balls, and bake on a slightly greased cookie sheet or parchment paper.
at 325* for 10 to 12 min.
cool then ice with thin confectioners icing, ( powdered sugar, milk, vanilla)
Aubrey says
Thanks for sharing your family recipe with us Yvonne! 🙂
Maureen says
You had me at “1/4 cup rum” 🙂
Odette Lauro says
How many does this recipe make?
Gail Akeman says
Just printed it, I think I will make these instead of my russian tea cakes
Brenda says
What nuts? Pecan or walnut?
Julie @Real Housemoms says
Hi Brenda. Aubrey uses pecans when she makes this recipe, but you could use walnuts too. Whichever you prefer. 🙂
Laura says
About how many dozen does this make? Thanks!
Mary Jo Paschall says
The cookies…do you use plain oor self rising flour
Julie @Real Housemoms says
Regular all-purpose. 🙂
Jess says
Omg…..I just made this, and they were a hit!! My oldest son loves it! And even I myself can’t stop eating it.???? Thanks for sharing this recipe. I’ll be making more for our New Years party.??⭐?????
Carole says
My husband is ‘hooked’; I’ve baked 3 batches so far in the past 1 1/2 weeks for him, which we also shared with friends?
Aubrey @Real Housemoms says
Yay!!! I’m so glad! I love hearing that!
Rhonda says
Best cookies ever love them also love the fact that the cookies only have a half a cup of sugar thank you for the recipe
Sue says
These look really good. In the video it looks like you used mini chocolate chips or were they the regular size ones. Thank you
Aubrey Cota says
Go for mini so they don’t overpower the snowballs. If you only have the regular size then give them a quick rough chop to break them up a bit.
terry says
why does my dough look real dry and crumbly? should these have 2 eggs – my dough looks nothing like the pics and all that’s left to do is add chips. These don’t look like they will hold together 🙁
Julie Kotzbach says
Hi Terry! If your dough is too dry to form, you can add some milk (1 tablespoon at a time) until it has a more dough like consistency. You do want the cookies to hold their shape though, not be a wet dough.
Laurie says
How did you get them to stay in a perfectly round shape? I refrigerated the dough balls for a few minutes before baking to help the round shape stiffen. However, the bottoms of mine flattened out…
Aubrey Cota says
I think looks can be deceiving. The cookies pictured are also flattened out on the bottoms, the only way to keep them perfectly round would be to use a special pan that help mold and keep their shape through the cooking process.
Mary says
I made these today, without nuts, they are wonderful and my grandson loved them. Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Aubrey Cota says
Thank you Mary!
Lesley says
Do you use salted or unsalted butter? And which type of chocolate chips?
Julie Kotzbach says
Hi Lesley! This recipe uses unsalted butter and semi-sweet chocolate. Hope this helps!
Alicia says
What kind of chocolate chips are best?
Julie Kotzbach says
We use semi-sweet for this recipe. 🙂