These chocolate peanut butter snowballs are similar to my Holiday Nuggets, but they have a surprise inside! The exterior of the cookie is a simple shortbread layer, and the inside is a delicious chocolate and peanut butter filling. These are a fun holiday cookie!

Ingredients needed:

peanut butter chips semisweet chocolate chips powdered sugar peanuts all purpose flour butter colored rolling sugar (optional)

How to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Snowballs:

Melt peanut butter and chocolate chips together and mix with a small amount of powdered sugar and chopped peanuts. Set that aside for a while to let it get slightly firm, and then roll out teaspoonfuls into little balls.

The exterior of these snowballs is made up simply of flour, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla- that’s it!  Knead those ingredients together. If the mixture appears too dry, sprinkle in a little milk until it feels good.  Form the dough into a log.  Cut thin slices and flatten out the slices with your fingers. You really want the exterior dough to be a thin layer, so be sure to cut thin slices. Place a chocolate ball in the middle, and wrap the exterior dough around it.  

Roll the balls in powdered sugar or green and red sprinkle-tainted powdered sugar and then bake.

Note!

There is a rather disturbing trend taking place in the world of Christmas cookies.  It’s that folks are doing so-called “Christmas Cookie Baking,” that isn’t really holiday baking at all.  What I mean by this is that some people bake chocolate chip cookies or snickerdoodles and such, add them to their cookie platters and call them Christmas cookies.  Those are just cookies, people!   And there is nothing holiday or festive about them unless you give them a good dose of holiday sprinkles.  It’s my Mom’s fault, really, that I feel this way.  She always baked holiday cookies that were garnished heavily with red and green. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?  Holiday cookies should look like holiday cookies!

But they’re perfectly pretty and delicious if you just use white powdered sugar. While still warm, you can roll them in sugar one more time to make sure they are well-covered.

Straight out of the oven, these are a crumbly delight, and you’ll get a mouthful of gooey peanut buttery- chocolate too.  Once cooled and set, they become a more solid cookie, still rather delicious.  Now tell me… is there any question whether or not these belong on a holiday platter? Add them to your holiday baking list this year. Enjoy!

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