This blog hop & giveaway is now over, but please scroll down for the Snowball Cupcake Recipe!!!
Phew!! We made it to Day 5- I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted, ha ha.
Yesterday’s featured bloggers were A Quilt & A Prayer and Tami’s Quilting Adventure.
Today’s Featured Blogger is:
Needled Mom
Please stop by and say “HI!” Remember that there are prizes at EVERY BLOG- so don’t miss out! Also, read to the bottom of this post to find out how to enter for the GRAND PRIZE, valued at over $100….. For all of the rules, click here.
Here is a rundown of all the blogs from this week’s blog hop:
- Monday December 2 Lily Pad Quilting
- Tuesday December 3 Sew Cal Gal and Bejeweled Quilts by Barb
- Wednesday December 4 Upstairs Hobby Room and Freemotion by the River
- Thursday December 5 A Quilt & A Prayer and Tami’s Quilting Adventure
- Friday December 6 Needled Mom
Today I will be sharing my daughter Samantha’s recipe for Snowball Cupcakes. Aren’t they beautiful??
Snowball Cupcakes
For cupcakes:
- 1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix
- 1 small box Jello Chocolate Fudge instant pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup sour cream
For topping:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick), softened
- 3/4 cup Marshmallow Creme or Marshmallow Fluff, about half of one 7-ounce jar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar (icing sugar)
- 1 cup sweetened, shaved coconut
Preheat oven to 350, line cupcake pan with liners, set aside.
Beat together marshmallow and butter until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in vanilla extract and sugar, beating until combined. Add in more or less sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Ice the cupcakes and top with coconut.
This recipe makes about 2 dozen cupcakes.
What is your favorite holiday treat??
I would have to say that mine is the Panettone bread. My daughter and I love eating it as is, or toasting it and topping it with butter. Yummy!! It used to be that you could only get this at Christmas time, and only in selected shops. Now it seems that the regular grocery stores carry it for much of the year- however, I still only buy it at Christmas time, so it’s still a a special holiday treat! If I had it all the time, it wouldn’t be special anymore :)
Thanks to everyone who has come along on this Blog Hop! I hope you had fun! I sure did… but now I need a good long nap….
thanks for the receipe. these look so yummy. My favorite treat around thanksgiving are homemade cookies. a tradition around here. Thanks for a chance for the give a way.
My favorite is 3 layer fudge. My sister made it every year till she passed away an know I make it for her family and mine. It’s a wonderful memory from her.
Cupcakes look delish.
Thank you for the chance to win.
Cupcakes look delicious , my favor treat are Brach’s peppermint nougats with the tree in the middle. Just peppermint enough and a little bit chewy.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Here it is just after midnight and now I want cupcakes! My favorite holiday treat are the crème drops that I can only seem to find during the holidays. Thanks for chance!
We are known for making Caramel Corn…..we give away as gifts. My Grangirlie, Daughter-in-law & I have started baking cut-out sugar cookies past few years too….so these 2 things are my favorite treats at Christmas.
My favourite treat are the traditional Swiss Brunsli cookies. We only make them during christastime and I just love them.
Thanks so much for the fun days.
Definitely fudge!
my favorite holiday treat is definitely fudge!
My mother-in-law always made delicious fudge which is my favorite treat.
I love my mom’s butter cookies and my grandmother’s gingerbread men…but now I am the only one to make them. They bring back so many wonderful childhood memories.
Those cakes look very yummy! I love eating almond bread. Christmas is the only time I make it.
I love the seasonal ribbon candy and the tins of popcorn specifically the caramel corn that is in them.
Our family loves the Fruit Mince Pies at Christmas time.
Happy days.
Bev.
What a pretty cupcake! I must try these, chocolate and coconut is one of my favorite combos!
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I just love Stollen – and chocolate of course!
My favorite Christmas treat? Hmm, what to choose? I’m thinking a hot, spicy Chai latte.
Here in MI Zingermanns Cranberry Pecan Bread is the best! They only bake it in Nov and Dec and it’s a real treat!
Thank you for all the fun this week!! Happy Holidays!!
My family loves Chocolate ginger bread cookies. Rolled, cut out and frosted :) Thanks for such a fun hop and wonderful giveaways. Have a Merry Christmas!
I have a friend who makes fantastic Southern Pecan Pie. Being diabetic, it is definitely a once a year treat and I can only have a small piece, but I certainly do enjoy that one piece.
Gorgeous recipe – I love the rabbit too.
My favourite treat is Russian Toffee that my grandmother used to make. I am still trying to perfect the recipe.
Thanks so much for this wonderful Blog Hop – I’ve really enjoyed it! Thanks for the recipe – looks delicious. My favourite Christmas treat is shortbread. Have a wonderful Christmas!
Definitely Panettone or Stollen. Too bad you can’t find these except at Christmas.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
I love struffoli. My mother used to make it every year. A few years ago my son found some for sale in an Italian bakery in the city and brought it over for the holiday. I may have eaten all of it.
Homemade shortbread, it is so rich and buttery! I only make it at Christmas.
It would have to be my family’s recipe for Cranberry Bread. Delicious!
My favorite is Cappuccino Cookies. I’ve been making them for years and my whole family loves them.
Homemade sugar cookies with lots of icing.
Spritz cookies and frosted sugar cookies.
My favorite treat is my homemade cookies as this is the only time of year that I make them. I’m a coconut lover and your snowball cupcakes look yummy! Thanks for Blog hop. Happy Holidays to you!
My grandsons love for me to make them homemade oatmeal raisen cookies, but I like Strawberry Delight. Your cupcakes look so delicious, I know everyone would love these. Thank you for the recipe and for the wonderful giveaway.
Thanks for the recipe – these look great!
At Christmas I love mince pies – with a dollop of clotted cream!!
Fudge, especially divinity, is my favorite holiday treat. Thanks for the delicious recipe & the chance to win.
Every Christmas I make M&M cookies. It’s a recipe I’ve had for years, but you can make it with a basic Chocolate chip recipe and just substitute M&M’s instead. Love to make them with the Green and Red.
I love sugar cookies with frosting. We make them every Christmas and they are my favorite.
We make what are called crown jewel cookies which are a simple cookie dough, rolled in nuts and baked then a little well of Raspberry Jam is place in the center.
We call those Thumbprint Cookies. Love em.
Those cupcakes looks very yummy. They remind of the Easter basket cupcakes my mother made for our school’s Easter parties. She would put green food coloring in the coconut for the grass, place little jelly beans on the coconut for the eggs, and stick a small colored pipe cleaner bent over the top of the cupcake for the handle of the basket. She stuck the ends of the pipe cleaner in the top of the cupcake. This might be something your daughter would like to try in the future.
I make the best Red Velvet Cake in the world with pecan straight from my daddy’s pecan farm. Oh it is so yummy!
ooh the cupcakes look fantastic!! Got to try them!! but my favorite Christmas treat, Shortbread!!
I love Christmas! My favorite treat is pecan pie that I make. Also, my husband’s ham he fixes just that one time a year. Thanks for the recipe!
Red Velvet cake balls.
Yum – my favorite holiday treat is the Almond Crescent cookies my mom makes – melts in my mouth!!!!!
HI,thanks for sharing a recipe + in the blog hop!
Love the Almond Pecan Snowball recipe of my Mom’s!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
My family likes Chocolate Crunch. They are made with Butterscotch and chocolate chips, peanuts and crushed ripple potato chips.
I always make spritz cookies, if I don’t I have a rebellion at my home.
We love pannetone too! Nothing else smells like it. We like to make baked French toast with it. :)
My favorite holiday treat is all the cookies. I make so many different kinds to give as gifts to friends and family but my favorite is probably the butterscotch cookie recipe from my aunt.
I can’t pick one favorite Christmas treat. Love most of them – that’s bad and good!
Thanks for the Blog Hop and the chance to enter. Your art is fantastic.
great recipe. I am not one for sweets, but at Christmas we always crack nuts. it the only time of the year they have unshelled nuts in the stores here
Oh those cupcakes look yummy! I love peppermint bark and always have to have a bit for the holidays. Thank you for the fun!
The cupcakes sound delich. My favorite treat would be my sister’s pumpkin roll with extra cream cheese filling. mmm. Thanks, this was a fun hop. dragonfly9716(at)yahoo(dot)com
This is the time of year when I splurge on fudge.
I love any type of sweets and since I don’t bake much except for Christmas… it is a real treat (for everyone!!).
Christmas pudding with lashing of warm sauce! Mmmmm =)
Kiffles – a walnut, crescent shaped cookie. Fun hop. Merry Christmas!
Sorry to see the hop end…everything was fun. New quilters on my bloglovin too. Merry Christmas. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
It has been a fun blog hop. Thanks for sharing such fun stuff.
My favorite holiday treat is fudge which I have made for years.
I have so enjoyed your blog hop Jacquelynne, it has been very fun. Thank you for doing it and I hope you do it again. :) Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. My favorite Christmas treat is divinity. I love it to the point I will eat until I am sick and then do it all over again the next day. Oh and my peanut brittle. Yum…..
fruitcake! I love fruitcake! but nobody else does, so I seldom have it to enjoy … the last time I made one, I froze it in individual servings; it took me half a year to finish it. sigh.
My favorite holiday treat is lemon sugar cookies.
I absolutely had fun this week hopping to all of the blogs. I have to say I don’t recall ever being so dedicated to hopping in a blog hop…compliments to the designer.
My favorite holiday food is our family’s version of a sugar cookie. They taste more like biscuits because they are not very sweet….but they sure are yummy.
Thanks for the great week and keep on doing what you are doing!
Smiles,
Kelly
What a fun hop this has been! I have had so much fun hopping around and discovering new blogs (new to me, anyway). My favorite Christmas treat is divinity with black walnuts. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! janrbell@hotmail.com
I copied that recipe – I’ll bet kids love them! My favorite holiday treat is what we called Nuts & Bolts growing up. Now days most people call it Chex Mix. I use 3 kinds of Chex, pretzels, Gardetti Rye Chips and lots of nuts – especially cashews. I make 2 big roasters full because I have to send them to a lot of family members – by request!
Wonderful hop! Thanks so much for all you do, and the recipe looks really cute. My favorite treats are the cookies. I use the basic Spritz recipe from the cookie gun. Some are tinted green, and I make the trees and add sprinkles before baking. Others, I leave plain, but press with a disk that makes them rounder. I dip these half way in melted chocolate and sprinkles. They are both pretty, festive, and fun. Enjoy your nap!
The cupcakes look scrumptious! Thanks for the recipe. My favorite holiday treat is hot spinach and artichoke dip.
Cupcake look delish! I have had a nut roll at Christmas time and I just haven’t been able to recreate the recipe. I tend to have issues with the yeast but it is supposed to be simple!
My favorite treat for the holidays would be fruitcake. I love it, as long as it’s made the right way.
My favorite treat is a fruit salad from the old Mike Roy cookbook. (Does anyone else remember that?) My mom made it only on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in our house it is “Christmas Salad”. We used to beg her to make it during the year, and she always said, “If I did that, it wouldn’t be special.” She was so right.
The snowball cupcakes are adorable! Thanks for the recipe. My favorite treat is peanut butter fudge. Yummy!
Gingerbread for me although your cupcakes sure do look good!
I love Panettone- never tried it until I was stationed in Italy in the 1980s and get it every year since then!
Also, Christmas is not the same without my Aunt REgina’s frosted cranberry squares
My favorite treats are Spritz cookies–love them!
My favorite holiday treat is for sure the cookies! My absolute favorite is the gingerbread which I make with a recipe that has been handed down from a friend of a friend and is delicious (it uses a bit of run!). I frost them with the simple powdered sugar frosting and decorate….yummy!
I love peanut brittle at Christmas. It was always my favorite until my daughter found chocolate covered peanut brittle. There is usually a box of brittle under our tree each year.
My favorite holiday treat is shortbread cookies. They go so well with a great cup of coffee. Those cupcakes look delicious as I am a big fan of coconut also.
Oh, now i’m going to have to try those cupcakes! Hubby loves coconut, so they would be perfect for him!
My favorite holiday treat is the no-fail marshmallow creme fudge. I remember making it with my mom as a kid and still enjoy making it now!
The cupcakes look so yummy. My favourite holiday treat has to be shortbread…think it’s because of my Scottish background?
Love my mother-in-law’s peanut butter balls!
My mothers homemade chocolate fudge yum!!
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Mine is cut-out cookies. We made some a few days ago and my toddler and I decorated yesterday. They will NOT make it until Christmas LOL
I’m sending the snowball instruction to my granddaughter. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you. Lisa
Christmas cookies!
The snowball cupcakes look really good! I love coconut and don’t have it often. My favorite Christmas treat are Mexican Wedding Cakes and Peanut Butter kisses cookies! Up until 3 years ago, I made these every year. The ovens I presently have are not great for baking as the temps are off and I have ruined more baked items than I thought possible as they are either burned or not done. So I have given up baking for now. Someday, I will get back to it.