Gluten-Free Snowball Cookies with a Surprise Center

These gluten-free snowball cookies are fun because you never know what surprise center you are going to get. They are my favorite Christmas cookie of all time. You've got to give them a try! I partnered with Bob's Red Mill to write this post, which is exciting since I LOVE so many of their products. All opinions are my own.

Do you have a favorite Christmas cookie recipe? One that you’ve loved since the time you were little? Well, I do. And it happens to be a snowball cookie, only we didn’t call them snowballs. We never really had a name for them. We called them something like, “Those round cookies with a hidden candy inside covered in powdered sugar.”

I got this cookie recipe from my mom, who got the recipe from her mom, and they called them Secret Kiss Cookies. But when I called them that, my mom didn’t know what I was talking about. For one thing, we didn’t put kisses in them very often. The kisses sound good, in theory, but in reality, they melt inside the cookie and you can barely tell they are there.

So I recommend you experiment with fillings and put an assortment of different fillings in each batch. Why? Well, then the cookies turn in to a fun game. Kind of like a blind bag that my girls always want to buy. You never know what you are going to get.

The traditional filling is half of a walnut inside. I always felt like my mom put a walnut inside to try to make them a little healthier. One of my favorite fillings in them is to take an orange candy slice, cut it in half and put a piece in the middle of each cookie. Yum. Or we would do gumdrops sometimes.

That really kind of depends on which flavor. Any kind of nut would be good. Can you think of something else we could try to put inside that won’t melt but that you can chew and that would go well with walnuts? If you can, comment below. I would love to try it out.

This Christmas I wanted to make the same cookies I had growing up, but I needed them to be gluten-free, so I thought I would give my grandma’s traditional recipe a try, but replace the flour with Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 Baking Flour. Guess what? They turned out great, it was the perfect 1 to 1 substitution for the wheat flour! Not surprising, since Bob's Red Mill products are all high quality. That's how these ookies were born.

And then, you know how when something is good and you just have to share? Well, I thought of my friend who recently had surgery and eats gluten-free and thought these would be perfect to share with her. Cause who doesn’t like a little treat at Christmas?

Especially someone who has dietary restrictions and who just had surgery. I thought these would be the perfect pick-me-up! Please comment below and let me know if you give these cookies to someone.

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