Snowball Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream rolled into balls and coated in flaky coconut to make beautiful ice cream snowballs.
Ingredients
- 2 cups vanilla ice cream
- 3 cups coconut shredded or flaked, unsweetened
- 1 cup icing buttercream or royal icing
- red and green food coloring gel-based
Instructions
- Form scoops of ice cream, about ½ cup each. Quickly place the scoop back into the freezer by setting them into extra cupcake liners, a muffin tin, or on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Refreeze for at least 30 minute.
- Take one ice cream snowball at a time, quickly roll between your palms to make a uniform ball and then quickly roll it in a pile of shredded coconut. Place the ball back into the freezer to harden (30 minutes more.)
- If you'd like to add a holly wreath to your snowball, color ¼ cup icing red and ¾ cup of icing leaf green. If you're only doing a few snowballs, just color a couple spoonfuls of icing. Place the red icing in a piping bag fitted with a coupler and a small round tip, like Tip #2 or #3 and the green icing in a bag fitted with a leaf tip, like Tip #67.
- Remove the hardened "snowball" from the freezer and pipe a ring of leaves in a wreath pattern around the top. You may want to use a circular object like a cookie cutter or a clean cap to make a slight circular indentation in the ice cream to follow. The leaves should be fairly small and facing in different directions to give the holly wreath some texture.
- Finish the wreath by piping several clusters of three small red "berries."
- Store snowball ice cream in the freezer until ready to serve. Add a candle to the top center if desired for serving.
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Notes
Keep plenty of space in your freezer cleared so that you can easily move the snowballs in and out while preparing them.
Freeze between steps to keep the snowballs from melting. Once the ice cream starts to melt, it will run between the flakes of coconut and starts making a mess. Keep things cold and frozen for the prettiest results.
Piping holly wreathes is optional. Leave your snowball ice cream simple and plain or add some pre-made royal icing holly (affiliate link.) Look on sites like etsy for vintage plastic holly pieces too!
You will have leftover icing - more icing in the piping bags makes it easier to grip and pipe out, but you really only need a little bit of icing for each snowball.
These can be made smaller or any size you'd like.
Nutrition
Calories: 467kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 23g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 117mg | Potassium: 355mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 278IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 94mg | Iron: 2mg
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