These Christmas Brownie Balls are the perfect bite size festive holiday brownie treat. These delightful little truffles are fun, poppable and so easy to make!
After you try these brownie balls, they will become your new go-to dessert to make for the holidays, birthdays or whenever you’re craving brownies. They’re everything that you love about a full size brownie, just rolled up into a delicious little truffle that is so fun and satisfying to eat!
If you love this recipe, you’ll definitely want to try my easy Christmas treats and these Christmas tree dessert.
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History of Brownie Balls
Brownies were first invented in 1893 in Chicago at the famous Palmer House Hotel. They were created as a special treat for lady socialites that could be easily kept and transported in their lunch boxes. A little fun fact, they weren’t even called brownies at first!
Why This Chocolate Brownie Recipe is a Keeper
A few of the reasons why we love this recipe is because it requires just a few ingredients, a small amount of time and it’s delicious. I know the holidays can be stressful and busy but making these yummy brownies don’t have to be!
- 27 Minute Prep: It takes less than 30 minutes to fully prep these brownie bites before letting them chill.
- 5 Easy Ingredients: These brownie balls only need 5 easy ingredients that might already be in your pantry. A chocolate brownie mix or use a homemade chocolate recipe.
- Kid Friendly: The kids are going to love these brownies.
- Perfect for the Holidays: Brownie truffles can be made for any holiday or special event.
Do I Have to Heat Treat the Brownie Mix?
Yes. In the recipe it will tell you that you need to microwave the dry brownie mix. This is because raw flour can contain bacteria like e. coli and salmonella, so it’s important to always heat your flour to 160 degrees before eating. I use this instant read thermometer to check.
Variations and Substitutions to Make Brownie Bites
These brownie bites are super easy to modify to your liking.
- Alternate Ingredient: If you don’t like sprinkles, use chocolate chips, cacao powder, candy, chocolate frosting or coconut shavings instead! Or whatever taste and texture you enjoy. Use chocolate chips instead of sprinkles. Cream cheese inside the balls is great too.
- Extract: Try adding vanilla extract, peppermint extract or other flavoring.
- Dietary consideration tip: Use low sugar or sugar free versions of your favorite treats
Looking for another fun recipe? Try this Christmas Piecaken.
How to Make Brownie Truffles
These easy and delicious, no bake brownie bites come together in just a few simple steps! Make this recipe in minutes, they are fun and full of chocolate flavor.
These are the basic steps for making Christmas Brownie Balls. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
STEP 1: Heat Treat your Favorite Brownie Mix
Dump dry brownie mix in a large microwave safe bowl. Place in microwave and heat in 30 second increments, stirring between each, for about 1½ minutes or until temperature is 160 degrees (I use an instant read thermometer to check).
STEP 2: Roll the Fudgy Brownie
Remove from microwave and add in corn syrup, chocolate syrup and water. Stir until well mixed and smooth. Scoop out 1 tablespoon of brownie mixture and roll into balls. Slightly dampen your hands before your roll the balls, it helps to keep the brownie batter from sticking to them.
STEP 3: Place the Brownies in the Sprinkles
Roll balls in sprinkles to coat. Place the balls on a plate or baking sheet and chill for at least 1 hour to allow the chocolate to set.
Recipe FAQs to Make Brownie Balls
Expert Tips for Making This Delicious Brownie Ball Recipe
- Different Flavors: You can use any of your favorite brownie mixes to make these yummy treats. For example, if you like blondies instead of the chocolate brownies, go ahead and make blondie balls instead.
- Coating Tip: Roll the brownie balls in the sprinkles with a fork to keep them from sticking to your hand. Tap off the access.
- Nuts: Roll the brownie balls in crushed nuts like as almonds, pecans, walnuts or peanuts for a crunchy finish.
- Gift Idea: Brownie truffles make a perfect gift to give to friends and family for the holiday season.
- Ornament Balls: Stick a mini candy cane on top to make it look like a hook on the top of an ornament.
- Melt the Chocolate: Dip the brownie bites in melting chocolate, and tap excess chocolate. Roll in sprinkles if you’d like, and allow the chocolate set on parchment paper. You could also drizzle additional chocolate over the top.
- Frosting: If you have a great homemade frosting recipe, like a frosting with peanut butter, try adding it on top of your brownie bites.
Christmas Brownie Balls
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- Garnishing Dish
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Ingredients
- 19 oz Brownie Mix
- 2 Tbsp Chocolate Syrup
- 2 Tbsp Corn Syrup
- ¼ Cup Water
- Christmas Sprinkles
Instructions
- Place dry brownie mix in a large microwave safe mixing bowl.
- Place in microwave and heat in 30 second increments stirring between each for about 1 ½ minutes or until temperature is 160 (I use an instant read thermometer to check).
- Remove from microwave and add in corn syrup, chocolate syrup and water.
- Stir until well mixed and smooth.
- Place sprinkles in a shallow dish.
- Scoop out 1 tbsp of brownie mixture at a time and roll into a ball.
- Slightly dampening your hands for rolling keeps the batter from sticking to them.
- Roll in sprinkles to coat.
- Place on plate or baking sheet.
- Repeat until all batter has been made into truffles.
- Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
- Store in an airtight container and served chilled.
Christina’s Notes
- Different Flavors: You can use any of your favorite brownie mixes to make these yummy treats. For example, if you like blondies instead of the chocolate brownies, go ahead and make blondie balls instead.
- Coating Tip: Roll the brownie balls in the sprinkles with a fork to keep them from sticking to your hand. Tap off the access.
- Nuts: Roll the brownie balls in crushed nuts like as almonds, pecans, walnuts or peanuts for a crunchy finish.
- Gift Idea: Brownie truffles make a perfect gift to give to friends and family for the holiday season.
- Ornament Balls: Stick a mini candy cane on top to make it look like a hook on the top of an ornament.
- Chocolate: Dip the brownie bites in melting chocolate, remove any excess chocolate. Roll in sprinkles if you’d like, and allow to dry on parchment paper.
- Frosting: If you have a great homemade frosting recipe, like a frosting with peanut butter, try adding it on top of your brownie bites.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
This recipe didn’t work at all. The batter was so sticky and would not form into balls.
The recipe does work. I have a video showing me making them. It could be you had the wrong size box of brownie mix.