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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
Ingredients
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 pound 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 a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Chill for 30 minutes.
- When done chilling, melt candy coating according to package directions until smooth and dip balls coating them completely. Allow excess to drip off and place back on waxed paper-lined baking sheet.
- Top with sprinkles and chill for an additional 15-20 minutes. ENJOY!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Thank you for all you wonderful and easy recipes. Love them all.
Butter should be almost melted otherwise it’s very hard to mix
Thank you for this recipe, my Granddaughters and I will be doing this one together thank you for the memories.
Ok…I knew it would be dangerous to open your email ! Peanut Butter Snowballs,Rolo Pretzels,Pretzel Rods ,Puppy Chow ohhhh my YESSSSSSS !
So basically , we will all need to start exercising more often in January ! Haaa..all kidding aside,thank you for sharing all the yummy!
Keeping fingers crossed now for the book drawing too!
Merry Christmas!🌲
My daughter loves anything peanut butter and she raved how good these cookies were.
Thank you for all your great recipes.
GREAT RECIPES. IM AXIOUS TO MAKE THE PEANUT BUTTER BALLS.
This recipe reminds me of my neighbors twist on this sweet; after forming the Peanut Butter balls she dipped them in chocolate mixed with a little canning paraffin and voila— chocolate covered Peanut Butter balls. They can be left out of refrigerator, but I’m not certain for how long.
Snowballs are a family favorite. These are so easy to make and so festive.
These peanut butter snowballs are the perfect addition to my Christmas cookie baking! I love the fact it is no bake too! I love peanut butter cookies but sadly I cannot bake them in my home. My husband and son are allergic to peanuts and baking them puts peanut oil in the air causing an allergic reaction😭. So I can’t bake my favorite cookies. I hope I can win this cookbook contest as it will bring new recipes to our table! Thank you Linda Rogers 🎄
My whole family love peanut butter, therefore, I am definitely gonna make them this Christmas!
I am definitely going to make these this year
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!
A great and easy Christmas treat!
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!
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!
Made this and it was a hit at the party!
I am trying these they look delicious
Could I be your neighbor? All these sound easy and are tasty. Great quick treats for family and friends.
These are awesome. Bet you can’t eat just one. Okay. I know I can’t.
My grandchildren love these, however, only with milk chocolate coating.
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.
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. 😉
So yummy!
I am making them right now and maybe I am making the balls too big? But I had to make about roughly another double batch to get the amount I needed. I’m doing a bake exchange and need at least 108 of them lol! Great recipe though! Thank you 😊
You’re welcome!! Glad they turned out well. Hope they were a hit for the bake exchange!
These are so easy and so yummy!
This recipe is easy and delicious! It is perfect for those of us short on time but need to make something for a holiday party. I can use items that I really already have in my pantry!
My favorite!!! Amazing gift for friends and neighbors! Yum!😋❤
These are so smooth & creamy on the inside & the white chocolate is so yummy with the peanut butter!
What a yummy and quick treat for the holidays. My kids loved helping make them too – and we ALL ate them!
These are so fun to make and so amazingly delicious!
Absolutely love these!! They are so creamy! We like to add them on goodie plates for variety.
These snowballs are so pretty,easy and the perfect gift to give for Christmas.
These are super easy to make and perfect for my variety plates I like to give my neighbors each year.
Made with chocolate coating & Christmas sprinkles. Easy & delicious! Doubled the recipe but they were still gone Fast! Thanks for sharing
Glad to share 🙂 Sounds good! Thank you!
I am making these and want them to keep these for a week, do they keep, or can I freeze them?
Honestly, I have not tried freezing them, so not 100% sure how they freeze. They should be ok in an air tight container in the fridge.
Is the nutritional facts on is this recipe correct? It seems so off.
Wow!
These snowballs are too cute and looks delicious.
Pin your post,Can’t wait to try it.
Thank you so much! Hope you like them!
When I made these, they were a bit runny and didn’t hold the ball shape very well. Maybe I used peanut butter that was too liquidy? I used a generic natural peanut butter. hoping after i freeze them they will be hard enough to dip into chocolate and then i can stick them back in the fridge and hoping they’ll hold.
Is the calorie sugar and carb correct seems awfully high
These look yummo! But im a little concerned about the calorie content…..is it really 1420 calories per serving???!!! How many cookies equal a serving?
Anyway, im going to try these for halloween with chocolate candy coating and Orange sprinkles. I dont see any possible way they can be anything but delectable. MAYBE tha exp the hi calories……you cant stop Eat until theyre all gone?
Thanks!
That was supposed to say maybe that explains the high calories.
Not sure what happened there. I think i got too excited thiNking about these cookies.
So what is the per piece content, and what is the yield? I will probably do dark chocolate to cut the sweetness.
Looks delicious.
They are!!! I hope you give them a try! Thanks for stopping by!
My PB lovin’ daughter would adore these. Pinning them and hoping to make them soon. TY for the recipe!
Haha..she would!! Thanks so much and let me know what you think!
That looks lovely! I don’t have favorite treats really, if it’s sweet it works for me 🙂
Haha..me too! Thank you!!