These melt-in-your-mouth chocolate snowball cookies are one of the most popular reader requested recipes I’ve ever received!

I honestly don’t know what took me so long to make a chocolate version.

The soft and melty chocolate cookies are quick to prepare, and they taste impossible-to-stop-eating good.

Seriously though.

Someone, please take the tray away from me, before I eat them all.

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The recipe is based on a classic Christmas cookie, and unlike with many of the other desserts on my blog, I didn’t cut back on the fat or sugar (although they’re still only 63 calories, with just 2 grams of sugar per cookie).

The cookies can be healthier if you use one of the whole grain flour options or if you use sugar free powdered sugar.
(For refined-sugar-free powdered sugar, simply blend your favorite granulated natural sugar–such as date sugar, coconut sugar, or evaporated cane juice–until it resembles powdered sugar.)

Or for a healthy chocolate ball recipe, try these date-sweetened Fudge Babies.

The recipe can be vegan if you use a nondairy butter or the coconut oil option. They are already naturally egg-free, no substitutions required.

A low carb version –> Keto Chocolate Cookies

For Peppermint Chocolate Snowball Cookies:

Add a few drops of pure peppermint extract (not mint extract or imitation peppermint) before stirring all o...