Festive Peanut Butter Snowballs are filled with sweet, creamy peanut butter and covered in vanilla candy coating and sprinkles!
The best part is these peanut butter snowballs only require 4 ingredients! If you love peanut butter like I do, you’ll also want to try Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars, and Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies. They’re all delicious!
Giftable treats!
I love the holidays and everything that comes with it. The yummy treats, the gift giving, the traditions, the craziness…It makes me so happy! One of our favorite things to do is make goodies and take them to friends, neighbors, and family.
I love doing this because it’s something I can get the kids involved in and it is something we all enjoy. I remember getting in the kitchen and helping my mom with her baked goods, and I want my kids to have the same memories.
This year, we decided to make Peanut Butter Snowballs as one of our neighbor treats. They are more of a candy than anything else, but were easy to make and incredibly delicious.
I picked up all the ingredients at my local Walmart using their grocery pickup service. If you guys have not used it yet – you must!
Making easy festive snowballs
MIX. Combine sugar, peanut butter and butter in a bowl mixing until dough forms.
SHAPE. Shape into 1 inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with wax paper. Chill for 30 minutes.
DECORATE. When done chilling, melt candy coating until smooth and dip balls coating with candy until smooth and all over. Place back on waxed paper lined baking sheet, sprinkle with sprinkles and chill for an additional 15-20 minutes. ENJOY!
Recipe Tips
- Consistency: If your snowball “batter” is falling apart, try adding more peanut butter and not more powdered sugar. If it is falling apart the mixture may be too dry, so add a spoonful or two of peanut butter to help them stick together.
- Peanut Butter: This recipe works best when using a regular peanut butter and not a natural peanut butter.
- Forming Balls: A cookie scoop makes perfectly sized uniform balls.
- Freeze: Freeze the peanut butter balls before dipping them. The candy coating will harden much faster.
Variations
I made these as a delicious and pretty Christmas treat, but you can easily customize it for any holiday. Simply adjust the color of the candy coating:
- pink for Valentine’s Day
- orange for Halloween
- top with your favorite holiday sprinkles
For this recipe I used a candy coating called candiquik. Another candy coating that works well is almond bark. If you do not have candy candy coating you can make your own using chocolate chips:
- Combine 6 oz of chocolate chips and 1 tbsp shortening.
- Melt together.
Storing Tips
STORE covered at room temperature for 5-7 days or in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
FREEZE in an airtight and freezer safe container for 1-2 months. Be aware that when thawing they may “sweat” so line them with a paper towel to help absorb the moisture.
For more Delicious Bites, check out:
- Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Balls
- Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Bites
- Date Balls
- Cheesecake Bites
- Sheet Cake Bites
Peanut Butter Snowballs Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tbsp butter softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 lb vanilla candy coating
- Christmas sprinkles
Instructions
- Combine sugar, peanut butter and butter in a bowl mixing until dough forms.
- Shape into 1 inch balls and place on baking sheet lined with wax paper. Chill for 30 minutes.
- When done chilling, melt candy coating until smooth and dip balls coating with candy until smooth and all over. Place back on waxed paper lined baking sheet, sprinkle with sprinkles and chill for an additional 15-20 minutes. ENJOY!
So yummy!
We made these tonight for a family night treat, and they were so good! It was easy enough that my 2 year old could be involved, and the ingredients were all things I had on hand. Now the hard part is making sure I don’t eat them all myself. 😉
These are the bomb. So good and easy to make. I use white and regular chocolate to coat them. So fun to make with the kids.
My grandchildren love these, however, only with milk chocolate coating.
These are awesome. Bet you can’t eat just one. Okay. I know I can’t.
Could I be your neighbor? All these sound easy and are tasty. Great quick treats for family and friends.
I am trying these they look delicious
Made this and it was a hit at the party!
My, my these are my kind is snowballs. Can’t wait to make these tomorrow. I like the fact that I have all the ingredients in my cupboard.
These will look great on my cookie trays. Thank you for sharing!
I’d tried peanut butter balls covered with chocolate before, but not with vanilla coating. Can’t wait to make and give these as Christmas treats!
A great and easy Christmas treat!
Can a non-dairy “butter” be substituted for regular butter? Thank you.
I haven’t ever tried, but you could certainly give it a try. You’ll have to let us know how it turns out if you do!
I am definitely going to make these this year