Cherry Marshmallow Balls. Easy, no-bake, delicious!
Cherry Marshmallow Balls. An easy no bake recipe using just a few ingredients to make a quick treat whenever you like. Perfect for cookie exchanges!
These Cherry Marshmallow Balls are often seen on bakery shelves around here, especially as we move closer to the Holidays. Although this recipe is readily available at several sources online, I thought I'd post my version because I've tweaked it just a little.
I found the original version a little too sweet and a little too unmanageable to form into balls.
I've tweaked the individual amounts of the ingredients to stretch the batch a little further and, I think, to make them a little more manageable. One trick I use is to roll the balls twice.
Roll once in the coconut, when they are really sticky, and then once again when they are all rolled and sitting on the parchment paper lined tray.
I like to wash my hands and then roll the balls again to shape them better. I find that this works particularly well.
These no-bake Cherry Marshmallow Balls treats will be a big hit on your cookie platters at the Holidays and make a terrific choice for cookie exchanges with particularly little effort involved.
Fine or medium cut, desiccated (dried) coconut is what I use for this recipe but you can use sweetened coconut if that is what you have on hand.
Cherry Marshmallow Balls - easy, no-bake, delicious!
Cherry Marshmallow Balls - an easy no bake recipe using just a few ingredients to make a quick treat whenever you like. Perfect for cookie exchanges!
Ingredients
- one 10 ounce can sweetened condensed milk, (300 ml in Canada 14oz in the US)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 3 cups mini marshmallows
- 1 cup chopped glacé cherries, or well drained maraschino cherries
- cups approximately 2 coconut for rolling
Instructions
- In a large bowl stir the vanilla extract into the sweetened condensed milk.
- Fold in the graham crumbs.
- Add the cherries and marshmallows and fold those in gently.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or wax paper.
- Roll the mixture into about 1 ½ inch balls and then roll the balls in the coconut. Place on the lined cookie sheet and continue until all the mixture is used.
- Wash your hands and then pick up each ball and re roll it. You can use more coconut if necessary but this step helps to form the cookies into more uniform balls.
- Refrigerate or freeze to store.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
24 cookiesAmount Per Serving Calories 138Total Fat 4gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 5mgSodium 78mgCarbohydrates 24gFiber 1gSugar 17gProtein 2g
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I, too, have found these cookies a tad too sweet. Glad to see your updated recipe.
I compliment you on your continuing efforts to provide great main meals, baked sweets, etc. that are economical to put together, & often sugar/fat friendly without sacrificing quality & taste. Keep up the great work! Maybe, just maybe, we'll see a #3 ?!!
Diana
My husband didn't realize that these are somewhat of a Newfoundland specialty, and we had a lot of back and forth to figure out what I should be looking for in a recipe. We're both glad we found this, it's almost exactly what he remembers! His mother always added walnuts, but I had pecans handy and added about 1/3 cup chopped (highly recommend). It is quite sweet but really tasty. We enjoy them right out of the freezer like he did when he was a kid. I'm a bit of a no-fuss baker/cooker, so I think next time I'll take the 'batter', flatten it into a parchment lined pan, freeze it, then cut it into cubes and coat in coconut.
I love those Cookies, My Mom made them for years although the recipe was called Aunt Martha's cookies. I guess it was my Great Aunt's recipe. She (My great Aunt is still alive and doing great at 80 odd years old. And i'd say she still helps my Aunt make Christmas cookies. Thanks for sharing your recipes. I would love to have your cooks books, IS there a place where i can order them from??
Thanks so much
Loraine Poole
You can find a link at the top of the home page.
oops my internet is really slow just saw the links for your cook books...lol
I made these today for the first time.....SO DELICIOUS!! They will definitely be staying on my Christmas cookie list for years to come! Thank you so much for the recipe!
Love these cookies. I know you like to experiment and thought you might like to try replacing the graham crumbs with Oreo chocolate baking crumbs. I increased the cherries by half a cup but just because I wanted to make sure I had the colour. Yummy.
I absolutely love your recipes. We own a small seniors home and I am always looking for new 'sweet treats' for our residents. I discovered that if I wear disposable gloves that the gooey mixes don't stick to them and it makes the job easier, cleaner and faster:0) Thankyou again .
Made these today to go on my Christmas cookie plate. The recipe caught my eye because it seemed similar to something mom used to make when we were younger. The only difference was that she rolled hers into a log and cut it into slices. (We lost her a few years ago so I couldn't ask about the recipe) These were indeed sticky but I took the suggestion of Sarah and used a disposable glove. I scooped with the right and rolled with the gloved left hand....didn't end up with gummed up hands and it went rather quick. Now the true test - making sure I don't eat most of them before the holidays lol
These look so yummy. Could you use dried cherries instead of the glace ones? I would soak these dried in a bit of kirsch first.