Homemade Minion Snowball Cookies
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MinionsMovieNight #CollectiveBias
I wanted to put a spin on our classic snowball cookie recipe to celebrate the the newly released DVD/Blu-ray of Minions © 2015 Universal Studios. All rights reserved. You can make your Minions movie night extra special with these delicious blue treats.
Do not let the blue color fool you. These snowball cookies taste just as yummy blue as they do white.
Recipe Ingredients
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup of margarine
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
Once you have gathered everything you need to make your snowball cookies, you will start with the dry ingredients. First mix the confectioners sugar, flour and chopped pecans in a bowl. Then set it to the side.
In a separate bowl you will cream together the shortening and margarine. While you are working on this step, set your oven to preheat to 325 degrees. Once the shortening and margarine is creamed together nicely, add your vanilla extract for flavor.
Now pour your dry flour mixture into the bowl with the margarine and shortening. Mix thoroughly.
As your stir your dough mixture you may find clumps. I used my hands to really work the dough.
Roll/smash your dough into one inch balls.
Grease a cookie sheet and line out your dough balls for baking.
You will bake your snowball cookies for 20-25 minutes on 325 degrees in the oven.
They will turn a light golden brown color. Watch the bottom of your cookies to make sure they do not burn. Let them cool on a sheet of foil or cooling rack in your kitchen before the final step.
While your cookies cool, gather the rest of your ingredients.
Topping Ingredients
- blue food coloring mist
- 1 cup of confectioners sugar
- yellow sugar/sprinkles (optional)
Since we wanted our snowball cookies to resemble minions, we added blue food coloring mist. It is so simple to spray on the cookies and does not alter the taste. Once you spray the color on, let them fully dry before rolling in sugar.
Usually you will roll your snowball cookies in confectioners sugar. To give another minion twist to our cookies we added yellow sugar to the mixture. This gave it a slight yellow sparkle.
Coat your cookies on all sides in the sugar mixture.
You can easily lay your cookies out on a serving tray or platter. I used a small cake stand to display ours. The kids couldn’t stop eating them!
Now your Minions movie night will be a hit for everyone. Pick up your Blu-ray copy of Illumination Entertainment’s Minions today.
Have left over cookies? Wrap them up and give as a gift this holiday season. Everyone loves edible snowballs…
How do you plan to make your Minions movie night extra special?
Those snowball cookies are so cute and look so easy to make. I’ve never tried making them before, but I’ve certainly enjoyed eating them! #client
These are adorable and look delicous!
I can see you are also affected by the Minion fever!! They look yummy!
What a fun treat for watching with the movie! I love snowball cookies!
i like those cookies they look cute yummy and i like something that is easy to make.
These snowball cookies look so decadent and easy to make too.I think they souund like they would melt in your mouth with deliciousness!
Mmm these cookies look soo yum and not too complicated to make can’t wait to try!
Looks like an adorable cookie.
yummy! they look so good and they are cute too!
Thankyou so much for this wonderful Christmas Cookie recipe! They look so pretty and sound Delicious! I will make these cookies Next Christmas. I Pinned it I didn’t know they had Blue food coloring mist, or yellow sugar. Thankyou for letting us know! Hope you Have a Wonderful New Year 🙂
We are always looking for different treats to prepare our grandkids!
oh my these look dangerous!! i feel like i could eat that whole plate by myself!!
Those are Minion fun! Thanks for sharing!
Nice twist. I think the kids would love these, and yes, they look fun to make.