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!

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!Click to TweetBut 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

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• Author: Kate Morgan Jackson
• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 30 minutes
• Total Time: 50 minutes
• Yield: About 24 cookies 1x
• Category: Dessert
• Method: Oven
• Cuisine: American

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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!

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Ingredients

• 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

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
2. Combine butter with 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
3. Stir flour and salt together and mix with the butter mixture until just combined. Stir in coconut.
4. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and put them about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet.
5. 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!

1 cookie1423.7 g45.7 mg9.7 g6.6 g0 g12.7 g1 g1.4 g20.2 mg

Kate Morgan Jackson

Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  Let’s cook together!