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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 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!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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!!