Melted Snowman Cookies

Ingredients:

For the Cookies:

• 2 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 cup of butter (softened)
• 1 1/2 cups of white sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

 

For the snowmen (for every dozen cookies):

• 6 marshmallows, cut in half at an angle
• White cookie icing
• Black cookie icing for decorating
• 24 mini M&M’s for buttons
• Assorted candies for noses and arms

 

Directions:

For the cookies:

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• In a small bowl, stir in all your dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder) then set the bowl to the side.
• Then in a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg, followed by the vanilla.
• Gradually add in the dry ingredients.
• Once everything has been mixed. Roll rounded teaspoons of dough into balls and place them onto greased cookie sheets. Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes.
• Once baked, keep the cookies for two minutes before moving them to wire racks to cool.

For Decorating the snowmen:

• Spread the white icing on the cookies in the shape of blobs.
• Decorate the marshmallow with the black icing to create face details.
• Place an orange candy to create the note.
• Then place the marshmallow on the icing.
• Decorate with M&M’s for the buttons.