This easy recipe for melt in your mouth coconut snowballs makes a perfect batch of cookies for any time of the year. So sweet with a cup of tea!
Two things.
First of all, I realize that I already have a post on the blog called Coconut Snowball Cookies. They are the ones that look like this:
And they are very scrumptious cookies.
This easy recipe for melt in your mouth coconut snowballs makes a perfect batch of cookies for any time of the year. So sweet with a cup of tea! But now I have another recipe for a cookie that needs to be called Coconut Snowballs, and these cookies are actually pretty different from my other coconut snowball cookies, and so I wracked my overworked brain for something else to call the new guys.
And I came up with…nothing. So sorry about all the coconut snowball confusion, but I can promise that both of these recipes are very worth making.
Second thing is this: you’d think that I would be organized enough to make something called “Coconut Snowballs” when it looked like this outside:
Instead of like this:
But at this point, I am complicating just about everything that has to do with the whole coconut snowball thing, so I figured I would just go ahead and post the darn thing.
Because they ARE melt in your mouth delicious, and to be honest, there’s no wrong time to make a coconut cookie, right?
Here’s the recipe. :-)
Coconut Snowballs
This easy recipe for melt in your mouth coconut snowballs makes a perfect batch of cookies for any time of the year. So sweet with a cup of tea!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: About 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter at room temperature
- 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar, plus more for garnish
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Combine butter with 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Stir flour and salt together and mix with the butter mixture until just combined. Stir in coconut.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls and put them about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet.
- Bake until just starting to brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Roll the warm cookies in confectioners’ sugar and (this is the hardest part) let them cool completely before eating. I KNOW! SO HARD!
squirrelbread says
so dainty! maybe something to consider at my wedding for those [crazy] non-cake-eaters.
cheers,
*heather*
smalltownoven says
These look delicious and so easy! I'm loving the taste of coconut right now (just made a coconut cookie last week). It seems to say "spring" to me.
Federica says
wow che delizia! complimenti!
Kate says
Agreed…there is not a bad time to make a coconut cookie! These look melt in your mouth good. Print…print…print!
Love the pictures!