Protein Snowball Cookies – Easy, Healthy, No Butter

Melt-in-your-mouth Protein Snowball Cookies made healthy and sugar-free are perfect for the holidays! Easy Mexican wedding cookies have pecans, no butter and rolled in sugar-free powdered sugar.

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I’d been seeing these Mexican wedding cookies around Christmas time for the last 2 years, but never got around trying to make them thinking it was too hard. Definitely not!

Not only are these homemade snowball cookies super easy to make, but also healthy since they’ve got no butter or sugar either.

Actually such a pretty and perfect cookie for Christmas or any other special occasion.

Ingredients for Protein Snowball Cookies:

These protein snowball cookies are made with simple healthy ingredients you have in your pantry if you’re baking with protein power a lot.

• Oat Flour – You can make your own by blending rolled oats in a high speed blender. Makes these snowball cookies gluten free.
• Coconut Flour
• Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe for a slightly lower carb high protein Mexican wedding cookie recipe. I recommend the Multi-purpose mix protein powder from Quest Nutrition.
• Vanilla Protein Powder for high protein keto snowball cookie and also replace the sweetener.
  I recommend Quest since it’s a whey-casein blend.
• Coconut Flour
• Tahini
• Unsweetened Almond Milk
• Unsweetened Applesauce
• Chopped Pecans

And to coat these sugar-free snowball cookies:

• Sugar Free Powdered Sugar for coating.
  I used Lakanto powdered monk fruit and erythritol sweetener (code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount here too)

Tips for Easy High-Protein Mexican Wedding Cookies

This high protein keto Mexican wedding cookies recipe is super easy, but heres’ some tips to get it perfect every time.

• Use whey-caesin protein powder since it works well with the ratio of ingredients here; Whey absorbs less moisture and won’t bake as well either.

• Taste the mixture and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the mixture and have sugar free and healthy snowball cookies.

• Don’t over-bake these or your mexican wedding cookies will turn out too dry and not melt-in-your-mouth soft.

• Roll the snowball cookies in powdered sugar while still warm so that the sugar sticks on the surface. If they get too cold, you won’t get a nice coating for the snowball effect.

To store Homemade Snowball Cookies with Pecans

To store high protein snowball cookies, place in an airtight container and keep on the counter for up to 3 days. 

Keep these homemade snowball cookies with pecans in an airtight container in the fridge for upto 1 week or freezer (in a freezer-safe zipper bag) for 2 or 3 months. Be sure to let them thaw on the counter before eating!

Alternatives for Healthy Snowball Cookies Without Butter

I made these healthy, sugar free, gluten free and low calorie snowball cookies without butter using this particular ingredient list, but here’s some options to choose from.

• Oat Flour: Almond Flour
• Unflavored protein powder: More oat flour, but reduce the amount of milk
• Coconut flour: Try using about 3 tablespoon of Almond Flour
• Unsweetened Almond Milk: Regular or dairy-based milk
• Unsweetened Applesauce: Mashed banana
• Tahini: Hazelnut Butter, Cashew Butter or other neutral nut or seed butter

Vegan Mexican wedding cookie recipe

Since there’s no butter in this recipe, you can make these healthy Mexican wedding snowball cookies Vegan using a plant-based protein powder. I haven’t tried this myself, so let me know if you do!

More Tahini Protein Recipe Ideas:

• Protein Tahini Fudge
• Espresso Tahini Protein Energy Balls
• Tahini Protein Shortbread Cookies
• Dark Chocolate Tahini Protein Balls
• Protein Shortbread Cookies