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Melting Snowman Sugar Cookies

12/17/2013 By Charlene 38 Comments

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Melting Snowman Cookies

Have you seen these melted snowman cookies?  I love them!  I saw them last year from a Polish blog called My Pastries. 

Her cookies are so adorable and I knew I just had to make them this year.

Now I have no patience whatsoever with frosting cookies so if I can make these cookies, anyone can and I bet yours turn out even cuter!

These are fairly easy to make but the decorating part does take a bit of time.  I made the cookies and icing and had these frosted and decorated in just over an hour- so not bad.

Melting Snowman Cookies Recipe

Next you can make your own icing or you can use the stuff from the tub.  I made my own and it was delicious-

4.7 from 3 reviews
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Melting Snowman Sugar Cookies
 
Ingredients
  • Cookie:
  • 1½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 2½ cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • Frosting:
  • 3 tablespoons butter, melted
  • ½ cup milk
  • ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3½ cups powdered sugar, sifted
Instructions
  1. Mix powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and egg in a large mixing bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients.
  2. Wrap tightly in saran wrap and place in fridge for 2-24 hours to chill.
  3. Once chilled, remove from fridge and roll out into a ½ inch thick on a lightly floured surface (I use powdered sugar instead of flour)
  4. Cut into a circle shape with a 2½ inch circle.
  5. Roll out slightly larger to accommodate the marshmallow.
  6. Bake at 375 degrees for about 7 minutes.
  7. Cool on a rack.
  8. For the icing:
  9. Mix all ingredients and test consistently. Add slightly more milk for a thinner texture or more powdered sugar for a runny icing. The consistency should be thick enough to coat a spoon but thin enough to spread on a cookie.
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If you want to make the icing ahead of time you can- this will be good for several days. Just bring it out of the fridge and to room temp before icing the cookies.

Once you bake your cookies and let them cool on a cooling rack, frost with icing.  This is a melting snowman so you might try for a few little drips and interesting shapes when you ice the cookies. I used a spoon and added the icing to the center of the cookie and then used the back of the spoon to spread it around the cookie and encourage little drips.

When I cut the cookie shapes with a standard circle cookie cutter, I found the cookies were a little small in comparison to the marshmallow.  So you can see what you think too but I wound up making the cookie circles slightly thicker than normal and using a rolling pin to make the circle a little larger.

Melting Snowman Cookies

Next you need large marshmallows for the head.  The marshmallows need to be slightly melted in the microwave and I found doing one marshmallow at a time worked best.

I zapped them for about 5 seconds and then if they needed more, I did about 2-3 more seconds. Buy what you need to make cookies from Food Lion Weekly Ad. You will probably have a few casualties of marshmallows but if they look a little melty at the bottom just pick it up quickly and pop right on top of your cookie as the head.

How to Make Snowman Cookies

Next you can start decorating.  I used a little black icing from a tube to draw on the arms and eyes and mouth.   Silly expressions on the snowmen give them a lot of character.  I don’t have a steady hand with decorating so I just did little Os for the mouth and some half smiles.

Next I added mini M&Ms as buttons.  Frosting tubes would work as well but I did find this icing tends to set so better to add the M&Ms to the frosting right away.

I used a dab of orange frosting in a squeeze tube for the nose.  This took a few tries to get it right as I didn’t want just a dot but rather a small piece of icing hanging off to look like a carrot.

 

Last you can pipe on the scarf. In the beginning I was doing the scarf first and realized it made it hard to place the hand so try it both ways and see what you prefer.

snowman cookie recipe

And that was it!   I thought the buttons were cuter slightly askew rather than lined up perfectly.  It makes the little guy look a little windblown 🙂

And that is it!  Not hard at all and these are both delicious and absolutely adorable in person!

Melting Snowman Cookies

And if you do want to see a 30 second video of how these come together visit my You Tube channel here.

If you like this recipe you might also like these:

Chai Spice Sugar CookiesChai Spice Sugar Cookie 

Christmas Tree Cupcakes- so easy and perfect for holiday parties!Christmas Tree Cupcake 

Copycat Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars Recipe- these are so delicious!Cranberry Bliss Bars – just like Starbucks and SOO good!

 

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Comments

  1. cathy says

    12/17/2013 at 2:45 PM

    These are SOOOO cute!!! A few months ago, there was cookie contest at my husband’s company. He liked the cookie monster cookies best, sugar cookie with blue frosting face with 1/2 chocolate chip cookie shoved in spot for mouth. They were very cute. So, I’ll have to make these for the next contest.

  2. Wendy says

    12/17/2013 at 4:44 PM

    Love it!!!! And what perfect timing… I was looking for easy, cute cookies to make for my hubby’s potluck at work this Thursday. I’ll be making these… Thank you!

  3. Maria C says

    12/17/2013 at 7:17 PM

    Cute!!! yeah, im going to cheat too… because my baking skills suck.

  4. Roxane says

    11/24/2014 at 8:12 PM

    Hi just to let you know I used your idea on my blog (http://parisian-at-the-antipode.weebly.com/blog/summer-christmas-creative-cook) – you are OF COURSE referenced back to – and they have to visit to actually get the recipe, I only used the picture ( and I put the original polish link too)
    If this is of any nuisance to you, please let me know.
    And keep the lovely blog going 🙂
    Thank you,
    Roxane

  5. Charlene says

    11/24/2014 at 8:48 PM

    Cool thanks Roxane 🙂

  6. Gloria Riley says

    12/03/2014 at 8:42 PM

    can these be made ahead of time and then freeze?

  7. Melanie says

    12/15/2014 at 11:17 AM

    How do you get your icing application so smooth and sort of dripping off the sides? Is it more liquidy when you make it, and then dries like that? Thanks!

  8. Charlene says

    12/15/2014 at 12:41 PM

    Melanie – yes exactly 🙂 Just try to to put a ton on there or he will really be in a pool of icing. Start out with a little in the center and pick the cookie up to encourage little drips around the center and you can add more if needed.

  9. Melanie says

    12/15/2014 at 12:55 PM

    Awesome! I’m going to try these with oatmeal cookies. Thanks!

  10. Rachel B says

    02/05/2015 at 8:03 AM

    I am repeating what others have said in this review when I say, “Perfect Timing”!! I say this for the current weather here in Wisconsin has been snow and cold and we cannot wait to see it melt and bring Spring into the air. I have a bake sale tomorrow and this is an exceptional idea to put on that table. Thank you so much!

  11. Charlene says

    02/05/2015 at 10:32 AM

    Oh cute Rachel that is perfect 🙂

  12. Jeanetta says

    12/19/2015 at 6:45 AM

    Your’s look more like a melting snowman! Cute!

  13. Crystal says

    12/07/2016 at 8:27 AM

    How many does the recipe make? Or does it just depend on how big you make the cookies?

  14. Charlene says

    12/07/2016 at 9:10 AM

    Hi Crystal- you should get at least 20 depending on the size of cookie you make. HTH

  15. Elizabeth says

    12/17/2016 at 9:10 AM

    Can you double this recipe or do you need to make 2 separate batches?

  16. Charlene says

    12/17/2016 at 10:35 AM

    Hi Elizabeth, you can double it. Enjoy!

  17. Nancy Plummer says

    12/24/2016 at 6:11 AM

    So excited to make these today. I made the frosting last night and it is an odd color – certainly not white. But hey that’s what makes Pintrest fun 🙂

  18. Charlene says

    12/24/2016 at 9:39 AM

    Nancy- Did you add extra vanilla? Butter, milk, cream of tartar and powdered sugar would not turn frosting an “odd color”. If you were generous with vanilla that will color the frosting an off white.

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