Chocolate Snowball Cookies

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Chocolate Snowball Cookies are a buttery melt in your mouth chocolate cookie featuring ground walnuts and sprinkled with powdered sugar. This is a delicious holiday classic cookie that you need to put on your baking list!

Chocolate Snowball Cookies stacked on top of each other in a black bowl.

I don’t know about you guys but snowball cookies are a holiday must for me! If you are my neighbor and you bring me a plate of cookies and they include a snowball cookie we are instantly BFF’s. Snowball cookies are taken to the next level today by adding chocolate and ground walnuts which combine to give them a rich chocolatey nutty taste.

These cookies are the perfect snowball cookie. They bake to perfection and literally melt in your mouth… just the way a snowball cookie should!

Chocolate Snowball cookies stacked on top of each other on parchment paper and a black bowl

One of my favorite parts of a snowball cookie is rolling them in the powdered sugar. This gives them a sweet and powdery finishing touch that reminds me of Christmas snow.

Chocolate Snowball Cookies on a cooling rack.

These cookies are incredible! They are so good that they might disappear before they make it to the neighbors house. 😉  My little two year old especially couldn’t get enough of these cute and delicious cookies. She would lick the powdered sugar and then eat the incredible chocolate cookie. The entire family loved these cookies!

You are going to love everything about these cookies. From the chocolately melt in your mouth cookies, to the nutty ground walnut taste, to the powdered sugar! These are going to become a new holiday favorite to bake.

Chocolate Snowball Cookies

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Chocolate Snowball Cookies are a buttery melt in your mouth chocolate cookie featuring ground walnuts and sprinkled with powdered sugar. This is a delicious holiday classic cookie that you need to put on your baking list!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Servings: 48 cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup baking cocoa
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups walnuts
  • powdered sugar about 1 cup

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl or stand mixer, add the brown sugar and butter and cream until light and fluffy. Add the egg, milk and vanilla. Mix until combined.
  • In a medium sized bowl add the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add the mixture to the creamed mixture until incorporated.
  • Add walnuts to a food processor and pulse until finely ground. Add the walnuts to the dough and stir until incorporated. Cover the dough and chill overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Shape the dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 8-9 minutes or until the tops start to crack. Let cool completely on wire racks. Roll in the powdered sugar.


Nutrition

Serves: 48

Calories86kcal (4%)Carbohydrates8g (3%)Protein1g (2%)Fat6g (9%)Saturated Fat2g (10%)Cholesterol11mg (4%)Sodium59mg (2%)Potassium52mg (1%)Fiber1g (4%)Sugar4g (4%)Vitamin A96IU (2%)Vitamin C1mg (1%)Calcium15mg (2%)Iron1mg (6%)

All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.

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Chocolate Snowball cookies stacked on top of each other on parchment paper on a black cooling rack.

This post was sponsored by the California Walnut Board. Thank you for allowing me to work with brands that I love. All opinions expressed are my own.

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Alyssa Rivers

I am Alyssa and the blogger behind The Recipe Critic. I started my blog in June of 2012 as a place to share my passion for cooking. I love trying new things and testing them out with my family.

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  1. Do you absolutely.have to leave the dough in the fridge overnight? How long do they.need to chill? I just got done putting the stuff together and would like to make them today

  2. Do you think these can be made with pecans instead of walnuts??Don’t have any walnuts on hand and would love to make these.

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