Melting Snowman Cookies
This is the best winter cookie recipe! A melting marshmallow snowman on top of a sugar cookie, creates a fun design and is great to decorate with your kids.
Melting Snowman Cookies Recipe
Who knew a melting snowman could be this cute? I sure didn’t. This festive recipe is the perfect cookie to get everyone in the holiday spirit. Kids will love to learn the magic behind making these snowmen melt, and I love sending these with them to school the next day as a sweet thank you to their wonderful teachers. No one can resist these adorable, jolly snowmen and this cookie will make anyone’s day!
Ingredients for Melting Snowman Cookies
Sugar Cookie Recipe:
- 3/4 cup of Unsalted Butter (room temperature)
- 3/4 cup of Granulated Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 2 teaspoons of Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 teaspoon of Almond Extract
- 2 ¼ cups of Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of Salt
Decorations:
- Jetpuff Marshmallows
- Mini M&Ms
- Orange Sprinkles
Royal icing recipe of your choice!
How to Make Your Melting Snowman Cookies
Making the Sugar Cookies:
- Using a mixer, whip the butter on high for 3 minutes and add sugar until it is fluffy.
- Pour in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract and mix until it is combined.
- Add in flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and then sift into the mixer!
- Continue mixing until a dough forms.
- Flatten the dough into a square and let it refrigerate until it is chilled.
- Roll the dough out onto a floured surface until it is 1/4 inch thick. Using your favorite cookie cutters, cut out your circles.
- Bake at 350ºF for 11 minutes.
Assembling the Melting Snowman Cookies:
- Make your favorite royal icing recipe. Set aside 1/4 cup of the icing, and add in black food gel dye. Add to a piping bag or a ziplock and snip the corner.
- Once your cookies are cooled, ice your cookies in any shape you like, we made ours asymmetrical so it looked like melting snow.
- Place an orange sprinkle onto the marshmallow in the center, this will be its nose! Using the black royal icing, add in eyes and a nose. Make them look happy, sad, shocked, as long as they have a face.
- Place your snowman head on the royal icing and pipe out some arms for them with the remaining black icing.
- Using mini M&M's create buttons on the “melted” part, these can be falling off the cookie, placed in a pattern, go crazy!