I love making classic Christmas cookies when the season starts, like my Oat Flour Sugar Cookies, Vegan Gingerbread Cookies, or Walnut Snowball Cookies. Snowball cookies are so cute on a Christmas cookie platter but even more filled with pieces of red peppermint candy cane. The classic snowball cookie recipe is not vegan-friendly because it contains butter. However, it’s pretty easy to adapt snowball cookies to be vegan by simply using vegan butter!
Ingredients and Substitutions
There are only 8 vegan ingredients needed for this recipe!
All-purpose Flour – This is the best flour for these cookies, I didn’t try gluten-free all-purpose flour but it should work as well. Butter of Choice – We used vegan butter, but any softened butter works. Powdered Sugar – or powdered sugar-free sweetener. Vanilla Extract – for more flavor. Peppermint Extract – This adds a delicious peppermint flavor to your cookies. Finely Crushed Candy Cane – Crushed candy cane gives these cookies flavor, texture, and color. Chopped Pecans – For a classic Christmas taste. Chopped White Chocolate – I used a dairy-free chocolate block finely chopped in pieces, but you can also use vegan white chocolate chips.
How To Make Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Here’s how we make these delicious crumbly vanilla shortbread balls filled with peppermint candy.
Decoration
Remove the cookies from the oven and cool for 10 minutes. Then, use a fork to roll the lukewarm cookies into the powder sugar. It’s crucial to roll snowball cookies hot or lukewarm into the powdered sugar, or the coating won’t hold very well. Let them cool down on a wire rack. Then, add a pinch of extra crushed candy cane on top of the cookies.
Storage
You can store these snowball cookies at room temperature for a few days in a sealed cookie jar. To make them last longer, store them in an airtight container in the fridge. You can freeze snowball cookies for up to 3 months in a sealed bag and thaw them at room temperature the day before.
Flavoring Options
You can also use this snowball cookie recipe to create other snowball cookie flavors. For example, you can swap:
White chocolate chips for dark chocolate chips. Crushed candy cane for more chopped pecans or walnuts. Pecans for walnuts or almonds. Peppermint extract for almond extract or rose water.
Below I listed some common answers to your questions about this recipe.
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