I’m sure you have all seen the traditional Snowball Cookies, but since the recipes all call for nuts, they are a no-go for us. But I so love them and think they are perfect for Christmas time. They are so pretty and white and I love how they look mixed in with bountiful tin of Christmas cookies.
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While planning our Snow Party (details on that coming soon) I knew snowball cookies would be the perfect treat to add to our dessert table. But I had to get creative and come up with a recipe that would be just as yummy and pretty. I think I won that challenge!
They go perfectly with a tall glass of cold milk, and I personally think Santa would love them too!
Aren’t they pretty?? Almost too pretty to eat…but we eventually succumbed to the pressure! This is a gooey, cakey cookie, and it just melts in your mouth! The adults at our party enjoyed them just as much as the kids did!
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1/3 cup oil
- 3 egg whites
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix all ingredients, except powdered sugar, on medium until well combined. Chill for thirty minutes. If dough feels sticky, add 1/4 cup flour or powdered sugar.
- Take about 2 tablespoons of dough and roll into a ball. Roll dough in powdered sugar (optional) and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 9-11 minutes, or until the tops start to crack. (Don't let them get brown - it will ruin the "snowball" effect.
- Let cool on the cookie for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Dust with sifted powdered sugar.
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Heather at Setting for Four
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Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage
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Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1/3 cup oil
- 3 egg whites
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix all ingredients, except powdered sugar, on medium until well combined. Chill for thirty minutes. If dough feels sticky, add 1/4 cup flour or powdered sugar.
- Take about 2 tablespoons of dough and roll into a ball. Roll dough in powdered sugar (optional) and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 9-11 minutes, or until the tops start to crack. (Don't let them get brown - it will ruin the "snowball" effect.
- Let cool on the cookie for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Dust with sifted powdered sugar.
Wow these look amazing!! On my to-bake list!! MMM!!
These look so yummy! My boys would love them and well, so would I ! Thanks for sharing.
XO
Kristin
I LOVE snowball cookies, however my husband is NOT a big nut fan… So this is a great alternative. They look absolutely YUMMY and I only wish I could grab one off of the screen 🙂
Can’t wait to hear more about your Snowball party!
xoxo
I am soooo making these for the cookie exchange happening at my house this week!! Easy and beautiful…my kind of cookie. Oh and yummy too! 😉
Vanessa
YUM! Ok… adding this to our Christmas week baking list 🙂
Thanks Maryann!
I love cake mix cookies! This is a great version. Pinning and saving. nomnonmnom 🙂
Thanks Shannon!!
those cookies look yummy!
Oh boy those look soooo good and so simple!
I can just bet the texture with these cookies are absolutely amazing! Love how puffy these are!
I agree – they are almost too pretty to eat!! Almost! Wink! These look amazing Kristin – thanks for sharing this Christmas cookie recipe! I’ll add this to my go to holiday cookie recipe list! So fun to party again with you!!!! ~ Heather
Um, Yum! I love easy and these look great! Can’t wait to try! Pinned it and shared on FB!
Thanks Kim!!
I can’t wait to make these and may add just a bit of peppermint extract for a festive flavor 🙂 Thanks for the easy recipe!
I think that would be a great addition!
Yum yum yum!! They look and sound delicious!! Pinning!
Kristin, these look and sound so tasty. I am cookie crazy and Christmas time is my excuse to indulge. I’ll be adding this recipe to my cookie to-bake list!
I just made these & they’re sooo delish! They taste JUST like the softest white cupcake WITH the frosting that you’ve ever had! Yes they’re so good they actually taste frosted. I doubled the recipe which gave me 3 dozen plus a few extra. I also added a 1/2 cup of powdered sugar to ingredients & it helped alot w stickiness. I love this recipe so much i’m wondering if you could also get other flavprs just by swapping out white cake mix for a different flavor? I’m trying it w red velvet cake mix tonight! Thanks for this recipe
Yes you could definitely work with other flavors. I think red velvet would be divine!
I’m glad Tammy C asked this….I also have a couple of questions. I subbed the white cake mix with lemon, and I thought of adding powdered sugar to the mix too. Glad to see its a variation. But can the oil can be swapped with butter? I’m going to make them today. I’m really wanting to make a light pink cookie like this and right now the cake mixes are buy one get one free so I got a white one and will color the mix and the powdered sugar with drops of beet juice to pale pink….what do you think?
Yes you can swap butter for the oil. The pink color would be pretty!
When I make these….I use strawberry cake mix to make the red color….turns out wonderful….
The recipe looks great but….I count FIVE ingredients not 4 😉
It should say that the powdered sugar is optional. Thanks for catching that! 🙂
Hello….you don’t have to publish this comment, but I’m trying to make these now and the dough is so sticky I cannot roll it, even if I flour my hands and I added a bit of flour to the dough…I’m not a baker so don’t know how much would be too much or just enough, please advise asap….I’m stuck here ….
Try adding another 1/4 cup of flour or powdered sugar. Also, be sure to chill for at least thirty minutes. The dough is slightly sticky, but should be rollable. 🙂
nevermind….I had to flour my hands to roll each one and it was a delicate process. But I just had one and the lemon flavor is divine. Thanks for this recipe.
I doubled the recipe which gave me 3 dozen plus a few extra. I also added a 1/2 cup of powdered sugar to ingredients & it helped alot w stickiness. I love this recipe so much i’m wondering if you could also get other flavprs just by swapping out white cake mix for a different flavor? I’m trying it w red velvet cake mix tonight! Thanks for this recipe
Yes you can definitely swap out the cake mix for different flavors. Red Velvet would be fabulous!
Your picture looks great and the recipe sounded so easy. I tried this today and it just didn’t work for me. The recipe only yielded less than 20 cookies. I thought maybe they were too big, but I measured out 2 tablespoons for each one. I let them bake for 11 minutes or more, until they cracked. However, it tasted like raw cake mix. I ended up putting them back in and baking longer, but they weren’t white anymore (of course). Any suggestions? I’m thinking of doing 1 tablespoon size ones.
I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. I’ve made them several times and they are always a favorite. Yes, maybe try with a smaller scoop.
I love these cookies! But mine never come out like a snowball, mine are more like a melted snowball. The batter is way to sticky to roll, even with a scooper they still flatten out. I’ve let it chill in fridge for as long as 1.5 hours and added 1/2 powder sugar and they still flatten out. I also have to cook them a bit longer than 11 minutes otherwise they aren’t done..but they always taste great..just wish they would look more like a snowball lol
These turned out great. I made them more so for the grandchildren that visit. Can they be frozen?
I haven’t tried freezing them – let me know how it works out!
I made these pursuant to the directions. It was still a sticky mess after adding the powdered sugar. They tasted more like gooey butter cookies rather than snowballs. They were good, but didn’t look like the pictures.