Snowmen truffles come with one small problem: sooner or later, somebody has to bite the head off a snowman. But once you taste the white chocolate shell and that irresistible peanut butter center, the second bite comes without hesitation.

If you’ve made Oreo balls, you already know how these start. I use Nutter Butters and cream cheese for the centers, then stack and dip them in white chocolate. Set aside an afternoon and let the kids help with the little hats, faces and licorice scarves. You’ll have a dozen snowmen ready for a Christmas party or cookie exchange.

Cute snowmen truffles made from white chocolate, with chocolate hats, candy scarves, and cookie bases, are arranged on a table with mini marshmallows and biscuits. Some snowmen are grouped on a wooden tray in the background, making this Snowmen Truffles Recipe perfect for holiday entertaining.

Make The Hats Before Anything Else

The hats can sit on the parchment for as long as everything else takes, so I make them first and they’re ready and waiting at the end. Each hat is half a mini Oreo with a mini marshmallow standing on top of it.

A hand dips a cherry with a toothpick into melted chocolate in a double boiler on a kitchen counter, just like the first step in creating delicious Snowmen Truffles. A spatula rests in the chocolate, ready to help with this delightful Snowmen Truffles Recipe.

Twelve chocolate-covered marshmallows are placed on top of chocolate cookie halves, arranged on a beige surface, resembling charming Snowmen Truffles ready for your next Snowmen Truffles Recipe.

Eleven small, chocolate-covered treats reminiscent of Snowmen Truffles rest on a piece of parchment paper atop a white plate, on a speckled gray countertop.

Dip only the bottom of the marshmallow in the melted chocolate, just enough to stick it to the cookie, then chill them before you coat the whole hat.

Scoop 12 Bodies And 12 Heads, Then Melt The White Chocolate

While the hats set, make the dough. One 16-ounce package of Nutter Butters and an eight-ounce block of cream cheese make the full batch.

I make the bodies 2 inches wide and use a two-teaspoon scoop for the heads, which gives you 12 of each.

A baking sheet with twenty dough balls, perfect for a batch of Snowmen Truffles, rests on parchment paper atop a granite countertop, with two ice cream scoops placed on either side of the sheet.

A baking tray lined with parchment paper holds 21 evenly spaced, round dough balls, arranged in rows, on a granite countertop—perfectly prepped as the first step for a delightful Snowmen Truffles Recipe.

A quick roll between your palms smooths every scoop into a ball before they all go into the freezer.

That half hour in the freezer is your window to melt the white chocolate. Lift the spoon out of the bowl before you use it: the chocolate should run off in a ribbon rather than dropping in clumps.

In testing with Ghirardelli melting wafers, it didn’t need any more shortening than the recipe calls for. Other brands can melt thicker, and if yours does, stir in a little more shortening, about ½ teaspoon at a time, until it runs off the spoon in a ribbon.

Glue Each Head On With A Dab Of White Chocolate

Once the balls are cold, touch just the underside of each head to the melted white chocolate and set it on top of a body. At this stage the chocolate is only glue, and the head gets its full coat later, when the whole snowman goes in.

Round golden cookies stacked in pairs with white filling between, arranged on a parchment-lined baking sheet on a kitchen counter—reminiscent of the playful spirit found in a Snowmen Truffles Recipe. Ovens and cabinets are visible in the background.

Look for a small bead of white chocolate pushed out all the way around the neck. That bead is what holds the head in place, and if you can’t see one, the head needs a little more chocolate underneath it.

A hand holds a peanut butter ball sandwich with white filling, reminiscent of Snowmen Truffles, next to another similar treat on a white plate on a granite countertop.

Then the tray goes back into the freezer, and after that the heads don’t budge, even if you pick a snowman up and turn it on its side.

Dip A Few Snowmen At A Time

When it’s time to dip, take only a few snowmen out of the freezer and leave the rest in until you’re ready for them. They dip best while they’re cold and firm, and as the cream cheese dough warms up it softens and gets harder to dip.

In our recipe testing, the last three our tester dipped slid off the toothpick and landed in the chocolate, because by then the dough had gotten too soft.

A hand holds a stick with two round treats dipped in white chocolate over a bowl of melted white chocolate; a red spatula rests in the bowl on a kitchen counter, ready for the next step of this delightful Snowmen Truffles Recipe.

Hold each snowman on a toothpick to dip it, let the extra chocolate drip back into the bowl, then slide it off onto the parchment. The toothpick is only a handle, and it never stays in a finished snowman. Once the tray is full, the snowmen go into the fridge to set.

A couple may crack as they set, which tends to happen with cookie balls. A dab of the leftover white chocolate, warmed back up, covers it.

Let The Kids Give Each One A Face, A Hat And A Scarf

Once the white chocolate has set, the snowmen are ready for their faces. The eyes, mouth, buttons and arms go on first, then the orange nose, then the hat.

Hold each hat in place for a few seconds after you set it on its dab of chocolate, so it doesn’t slide off before it grabs. The licorice scarf goes on last.

A hand places a chocolate hat on a snowman-shaped treat made of white chocolate with a smiling face, orange nose, and chocolate details—perfect for any Snowmen Truffles Recipe. Other similar Snowmen Truffles are visible in the background.

If the kids are doing the faces, some will come out a little wacky, and every snowman truffle on the tray ends up looking like its own character. Then the finished snowmen go straight back into the fridge.

Make Them Ahead And Keep Them Cold

I’ve had an independent recipe tester help me determine how long these little guys could be stored. During her testing, snowmen truffles were still perfect after six days in the fridge, so you can make a batch on the weekend and have them ready for whatever is on the calendar that week.

Two small Snowmen Truffles, each with a chocolate hat and a red licorice scarf, stand on a Ziploc bag labeled “Fridge 4 days” on a granite countertop.

They need to stay cold until you set them out. We tried a side-by-side test with one snowman left on the counter for a day while the rest stayed in the fridge.

The one stored at room temperature went soft on the outside and its scarf had broken, while the refrigerated ones didn’t go sticky or cloudy after 20 minutes uncovered.

If you’re taking them to an exchange or giving them away, hand them over cold and tell whoever gets them to keep them in the fridge.

More Christmas Treats To Decorate By Hand

Reindeer pretzels give the kids another face to put together, with candy eyes, a red candy nose and pretzel antlers on a melted Rolo.
Strawberry Christmas trees are fresh strawberries dipped in green candy coating and finished with sprinkles and a star, so there’s a second tray for them to dress up.
Reindeer Rice Krispie treats get chocolate pretzel antlers, candy eyes and an M&M nose, each one stuck on with a dab of melted almond bark, the same way the snowman heads go on.
Christmas wreath cookies are green cornflake wreaths the kids can dot with cinnamon candies for the holly berries.

This post was originally published in October 2021 and it was updated in September 2026.