Melted Snowman Cookies are the perfect thing to make on a cold winters day. When it’s grey and miserable outside these biscuits are guaranteed to make you smile. The great thing is they require hardly any skill at all – you don’t have to be the neatest decorator to make these look good, in fact the messier they are the better!
To start you’ll need to make the cookies. We used and followed the same recipe as we did here. If you don’t have circle cookie cutters then don’t worry, you can roughly squash out circle-ish shapes but we used these, then manipulated the shape slightly for a more “melted” effect
Once your cookies are nice and brown, leave to cool before you decorate.
You can use a number of icing techniques to create the melted snowman, it just depends on the time you have and what you feel most comfortable doing. We used Royal Icing to create the right consistency but you can use fondant icing. Just mix icing sugar and a little water until it is smooth thick with a consistency of custard.
Royal Icing
You will need
- 500g icing sugar
- 80ml water
- 15g egg white powder
Add the ingredients to a bowl liquids first. Using an electric whisk mix for about 5 minutes. To create the melted snowman you’re looking to have the consistency of custard, if your mixture is too thick add water a little at a time until you achieve this.
Save a little of the mixture for decorating later then fill a piping bag with the rest of the royal icing. Using the piping bag, cover the biscuit in icing. It doesn’t need to be neat or even cover the whole biscuit, just make it look melted.
To make the snowman’s head you can use either a marshmallow or a ball of rolled fondant. We used an edible pen to draw on the eyes and mouth but you can use black food gel.
To draw on the details, divide your left over icing in to 3 pots. You will need more icing for the arms so make that the biggest. The other two pots will be for the buttons and the snowman’s nose. Colour the biggest amount of icing black, another orange and the other which ever colour you want your buttons to be (We chose red)
Wait until the icing on the base of your cookie is dry, then using a small nozzle and piping bag draw on the snowman’s arms. Finally pipe on a few red buttons, a nose and you’re done!