Snowballs
Recipe: #11588
December 22, 2013
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Shaped, Walnut, One-Pot Meal, Baby Shower, Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day Halloween, Mothers Day, New Years, Picnic, Potluck, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Wedding, more
"This is a recipe I got from a friend. I tried them at her house during the holiday season and they were so good I had to share the recipe here. Thanks Joan."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (45.3 g)
- Calories 214.1
- Total Fat - 12.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.1 g
- Cholesterol - 7.6 mg
- Sodium - 69.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 25 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.7 g
- Sugars - 21.5 g
- Protein - 3.4 g
- Calcium - 14.5 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Mix together the dates, walnuts, 2 tablespoons melted butter and peanut butter and put in the fridge until firm.
Step 2
In the meantime, make the butter icing by mixing together the 1/4 cup butter, icing sugar and just enough milk to give this icing a medium thin consistency.
Step 3
Roll the firmed date and walnut mixture into small balls, dip in butter icing mixture then roll in coconut and chill.
Step 4
Keep in fridge, don't freeze.
Tips
No special items needed.