Christmas Coconut Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth, delicious coconut cookies rolled in powdered sugar. They will be perfect for your Christmas cookie tray! These festive cookies are portable, sweet, and overall, the best Christmas dessert!
My Favorite Festive Christmas Cookies
If you are thinking about which desert to make these days, I believe you will not be in much of a dilemma after this! Of course, Christmas is around the corner and the first thing on everyone’s mind is Christmas cookies. Now, the problem could be which kind of cookie to go for. Of course, when I hit this kind of problem, the first thing I look for a solution for is the internet. My favorite food blogs, Pinterest or Facebook are all full of recipes for Christmas cookies, so after a two hour search, I was right where I started. Snickerdoodle Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, gorgeous Cinnamon Cookies, Almond Gingerbread Cookies , Snowball Cookies… OMG! Just when I thought I have found the solution, I find a more beautiful photo and everything is in tatters again.
In the end, I solved the whole mess in a very simple way. Since it’s winter time and I just love snow, I decided, for a start, that my cookies must be white. That left only two recipes on my list. It was something like Lemon Tea Cookies from the My Madison Bistro blog, or the beautiful Snowball Cookies from my favorite Cooking Classy blog. After giving it a thought, the decision was to make the beautiful Snowball cookies, which really looked like snowballs and winter magic.
Coconut Snowball Christmas Cookie Recipe
And so, when the decision was finally made, the rest was “a piece of cake”. If you ever baked cookies, you probably know that it is not such a big philosophy. In a very short time and with very little effort, your kitchen has the beautiful smell of sweet cookie dough. Well, the same in my case, but there was just one catch! Except the smell of dough in my kitchen, there was also the divine smell of coconuts! Yes, coconuts are one of my favorite and since the cookie dough for my Snowball cakes was divine white, I decided that a little coconuts can only make the situation better. And it did.
In the end, only one step was left, to roll the beautiful cookies into sugar powder so they would look like real snowballs. Really beautiful. And delicious too. They were not yet cooled, and half of my cakes were already non-existent. And the suspects were walking around the house munching and with mouths full of sugar powder. Hmmmm, everything points to the fact that this is not the end of the Christmas cookies story. It looks like we will have to try again 🙂
Christmas Coconut Snowball Cookies
Prep Time: 20 minutes- Cook Time: 16 minutes
- Total Time: 36 minutes
Yield: 25 cookies 1x
Category: Desserts
Method: Oven
Cuisine: American
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Christmas Coconut Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth, delicious coconut cookies rolled in powdered sugar. They will be perfect for your Christmas cookie tray! These festive cookies are portable, sweet, and overall, the best Christmas dessert!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup finely shredded coconut
- 2 cups powdered sugar for coating
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees; lined a pan with baking paper and set aside
- Mix butter on medium speed until creamy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment
- Add 2/3 cup powdered sugar and salt, mix well.
- Add in vanilla, cornstarch and finely shredded coconut.
- Continue mixing on low speed gradually adding flour and mix until evenly combine.
- Scoop 1 Tbsp dough at a time and roll into a ball, place balls on lined baking paper.
- Bake about 16 – 18 minutes (until bottoms get light golden color )
- Remove from the oven, cool a few minutes and while cookies are still warm roll them in powdered and let them on a wire rack to cool completely and then roll them in powdered sugar once again, to coat them generously.
32 comments
In your original recipe for the Snowball Cookies, it calls for 2 Cups of All Purpose Flour. The Coconut Snowball cookies call for 2 Cups of All Purpose Flour and an additional one cup of coconut flour. Before I make these I just wanted to clarify that this is correct or if it is supposed to be one cup of AP Flour and one cup of Coconut Flour. Thanks!
Yes Lauren it’s correct, 2 cup all purpose flour and 1 cup coconut.
Happy baking:-)
Lauren this recipe calls for shredded coconut not coconut flour. Two very different things!
simmmer down ladies… it’s just cookies
Just wondering if its unsalted or salted butter that is called for in the snowball cookies? Thanks!
Hi Maddy, it’s unsalted butter.
Hi Vera! Stopping by from Pin It Thursday – had to come check out these delicious looking cookies. My 5-year-old is now on Christmas break, so I’m thinking we’ll take a day and bake lots of cookies for friends and neighbors. These will definitely make the list! Have a wonderful Holiday, Vera! ~Erin
Thanks Erin,
I also check your your blog and it’s great!
Enjoy with your little boy and friends and have a happy Holiday:-)
Vera, what is coconut flour? Can I use desiccated coconut instead?
Hi Nancy, you can use extra fine desiccated coconut
Where can you find Coconut flour? Did you make your own by blending it in the food processor or something? Thanks, Beth
Hi Beth,
if you can’t find coconut flour you can use finely shredded coconut(but extra fine!).
Maybe you can try to blend flaked coconut in food processor to make it extra fine,I didn’t try that so I’m not 100% sure would it work.
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I’m wondering if coconut oil could be substituted for butter. I’m going to try it if I don’t hear anything negative.
Hi Patsy, I can’t help you with that because I try only this way as it said in the recipe. Let me know how it work if you try.
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Read all comments but still confused. Coconut flour is not in the ingredient list, but is referred to in the directions. Does the recipe require coconut flour in addition to the shredded coconut? Thank you for sharing your recipes!
Hi Nancy, sorry my mistake,it’s shredded coconut,I’ve corrected,thanks.
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Hello 🙂 this is such a wonderful recipe. I made it several times now using shredded coconut flakes (fine but not extra fine) and it still turned out great and they just melt in your mouth. I keep getting asked to make these again by family and friends ^^
thank you very much. xoxo Jen
Thanks Jen 🙂
Mine turned out very dry. Not able to serve them.
Hi Suzzane, I’m really sorry about that 🙁
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Could I add nuts or mini chocolate chips
I made them today and they are delicious. It made 35 snowballs cooked them exactly 18 mins. I usually make Russian tea cakes but I’m allergic to nuts. Coconut snowballs are just as good melts in your mouth. This is a keeper?
Thanks so much, Jeanne!
Is this sweetened or unsweetened coconut
Awesome cookies.