No Bake Coconut Snowballs Recipe

Add an old fashioned No Bake Coconut Snowballs recipe to your recipe box and relive your childhood. The white Snowball cookies were always prominent on the dessert trays when I grew up in the 1950s, especially around Christmas time and New Years. Enjoy an easy-to-make homemade treat for celebrating a traditional Christmas.

Aunt Jessie's No Bake Coconut Snowballs Recipe

Mom's Recipe Scrapbooks (1920s)

No Bake Coconut Snowballs

Cream 1/3 cup butter, 2/3 cup sugar, and 2 egg yolks. Add 1 cup drained crushed pineapple and 1 cup chopped pecans.

Take a small amount of the mixture and put it between 2 vanilla wafers, making a little sandwich. Freeze them until firm.

Roll the frozen wafer sandwiches in Cool Whip® or whipped cream and immediately roll in coconut. Freeze until ready to serve.

If you are afraid of issues with the raw egg yolks, you can substitute 1/2 cup cream cheese for the butter and egg yolks. It's a little different flavor, but still very good. Enjoy!

Baked Snowball Cookies

1 cup butter
1/2 cup fruit sugar or icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup chopped nuts or bits of candied fruit

Beat butter until creamy, add vanilla and sugar, and continue beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Add remaining ingredients, shape into balls, and place on non greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350°F for about 20 minutes. Roll in confectioner's sugar when cool. Makes about 3 dozen snowballs.

Snowball Yum Yums

To make No Bake Snowball Yum Yums, take some peanut butter and roll it into balls. Take half a bag of chocolate chips and melt them in a pot over the stove until sticky yet melted, then take them off the burner.

Using a spoon, quickly pour chocolate onto peanut butter balls. Grab coconut shavings and remaining chocolate chips and before the chocolate dries, stick chocolate chips all over to make a spiky ball, or to make a pattern. Stick on coconut shavings.

Let Yum Yums sit in a cold fridge overnight. Serve in paper baking cups. —Corinna

Coconut Snowballs With Fruit

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons Evaporated Milk, 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar, 3/4 cup cut citron, 3/4 cup coarsely cut red candied cherries, 1/2 cup coarsely cut pitted dates, flaked coconut.

No Bake Method:

In a saucepan, combine milk and sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in fruits. Chill thoroughly.

Grease hands and shape chilled mixture into balls by rolling between palms of hands. Roll balls in coconut. Top with candied cherry half. Chill until firm. Makes about 2 dozen.

Snowy White Pecan Gems

3/4 cup butter
5 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons ice water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond flavoring
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups flour

Method:

Mix ingredients in order: butter, brown sugar, water, vanilla, almond flavoring, nuts, and flour. Pinch a small amount of dough with fingers and roll into a small ball shape.

Place balls on cookie sheet and bake in 275°F oven for about 45 minutes. Do not grease the cookie sheet beforehand. After baking, shake in a bag with white icing sugar while still warm.

Coconut Stacks Recipe

Submitted by Sue

Coconut Stacks

My mother-in-law uses 3 vanilla wafers for each stack and prefers to omit the coconut. (I am not a fan of coconut either, and I think they are wonderful without it.) —Sue

Cream Together:

1/4 Cup butter
1/2 Cup sugar

Add and Stir:

1 egg yolk
1/2 Cup crushed pineapple, well drained
1/2 Cup nuts

Lastly:

66 vanilla wafers
1 Cup whipped cream, sweetened
Coconut (optional)

Spread mixture between wafers, 3 wafers for each stack. Refrigerate overnight. Unfrosted stacks can be frozen for serving later.

A few hours before serving, frost each stack with whipped cream. Sprinkle with coconut if desired, and refrigerate again.