Christmas Cherry Balls | Coconut Cherry Ball recipe

Ingredients to make Christmas Cherry Snowballs

1/2 cups butter (softened}
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
1 Tbsp. milk
1/2 tsp. Almond extract
Jar of maraschino cherries (approx. 24)

set aside:
1/2 graham cracker crumbs/chopped almonds or walnuts

How to make cherry snowballs

1. Cream butter and icing sugar.
2. Add milk, almond extract and coconut.
3. Cover a single or half cherry in the sugar blend.
4. Roll each cherry “ball” in crumbs or nuts.

Chill.
Enjoy!

I used to eat these up like potato chips at my sister-in-law’s house, one year my brother caught me and the GLARE he gave me when he realized! I found this in my mother’s recipe collection and started making these every year- they are a holiday tradition for us.
These cherry snowballs are great for cookie exchanges or potlucks, they keep well and you can freeze.
I have 4 things I make each holiday sesaon, these Christmas cherry snowballs. my great-grandmother’s Scottish shortbread recipe, my other grandmother’s peanut butter confetti squares and for dessert a fruit trifle, pumpkin or pecan pie.
Some years I make ginger snaps, walnut cookies and if extra adventurous will make Florentine cookies or Empire biscuits.

These Cherry snowballs are a great no-bake Christmas or holiday cookie!

Do you have a recipe you’d like to share? Have you ever had these cherry snowballs over the holidays?