These Surprise Snowball Cookies are the cookies to make for holiday parties, cookie exchanges and for Christmas as they are soft, flaky and buttery!
Take a Hershey Kiss and hide it in a shortbread cookie and Surprise!, you have Secret Surprise Cookies! It’s our favorite holiday cookies and we make every year and we’re sharing the recipe with you. Once you try these you can’t stop eating them!
What are Snowball Cookies?
Snowball Cookies also know as Mexican Wedding Cookies, Butterballs or Russian Tea Cakes are flaky on the inside and sweet on the outside. For this recipe there is a sweet surprise in the middle of a chocolate kiss so they are sweeter than the traditional snowball cookies.
Recipe Tips & Variations
- Can substitute chocolate kiss for maraschino cherries.
- Can also add peanut butter to make a peanut butter surprise kiss cookies.
- Want a different texture? Swap the chocolate kiss for caramel, cream d mint.
- Peppermint flavor? Try adding a peppermint chocolate kiss instead of a chocolate one.
More Christmas Cookies
- Peppermint Mocha Cookies
- Easy Christmas Sugar Cookies
- Christmas Shortbread Cookies
- Gingerbread Men Cookies
Cookie Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, room temp
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
32 Hershey Kisses, unwrapped
Additional powdered sugar for rolling
How to Make Surprise Snowball Cookies
Preheat the oven to 350°.
Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer add the butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and vanilla. Mix on medium speed, until fluffy. Carefully add flour mixture 1 cup at a time, until all flour is in the mixture. Mix until the dough comes together.
Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop balls of dough, set to the side. Take 1 dough ball at a time flatten it out with your hands and place a Hershey Kiss inside. Roll the dough back into a ball. Place on the baking sheet.
Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. The bottoms should be slightly brown. Remove from the oven and cool for just 5-10 minutes.
In a small bowl add your powdered sugar, then roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. Place on a platter to enjoy!
To Store: Place in an airtight container and store in fridge for up to one week.
Recipe
Surprise Snowball Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temp
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 32 Hershey Kisses unwrapped
- Additional powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a stand mixer add the butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and vanilla. Mix on medium speed, until fluffy. Carefully add flour mixture 1 cup at a time, until all flour is in the mixture. Mix until the dough comes together.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop balls of dough, set to the side. Take 1 dough ball at a time flatten it out with your hands and place a Hershey Kiss inside. Roll the dough back into a ball. Place on the baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. The bottoms should be slightly brown. Remove from the oven and cool for just 5-10 minutes.
- In a small bowl add your powdered sugar, then roll each cookie in the sugar until coated. Place on a platter to enjoy!
- To Store: Place in an airtight container and store in fridge for up to one week.
Nutrition Disclosure
Nutritional facts are estimates and are provided as a courtesy to the reader. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional values are calculated via a third party. Changing ingredients, amounts or cooking technique will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.
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