Homemade Minion Snowball Cookies

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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.

Homemade Minion Snowball Cookies

Do not let the blue color fool you.  These snowball cookies taste just as yummy blue as they do white.

Snowball Cookie Ingredients

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.

Mix dry ingredients

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.

Cream Shortening and Butter

Now pour your dry flour mixture into the bowl with the margarine and shortening.  Mix thoroughly.

mix ingredients

As your stir your dough mixture you may find clumps.  I used my hands to really work the dough.

snowball cookie dough

Roll/smash your dough into one inch balls.

roll dough into balls

Grease a cookie sheet and line out your dough balls for baking.

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You will bake your snowball cookies for 20-25 minutes on 325 degrees in the oven.

snowball cookie dough balls

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.

bake snowball cookies

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.

spray food color on cookies

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.

color powder sugar

Coat your cookies on all sides in the sugar mixture.

roll snowball cookies in powder sugar

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!

Homemade Snowball Cookies

Now your Minions movie night will be a hit for everyone.  Pick up your Blu-ray copy of Illumination Entertainment’s Minions today.

minion cookies

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?

14 Comments

  1. 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 🙂

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