If you’re looking for a fun and unique cookie recipe for cookie exchanges this year, check out this adorable and easy Melted Snowman Cookies recipe!
Easy Melted Snowman Cookies
I don’t know about you, but I kinda dig cookies with a little flair. You already know I’m a huuuuge snowman lover (ahem), but what if we didn’t do the typical snowman cookie? What if we did something a little different? And not in an “oops, I screwed up the dessert” kind of different. (Man, have I come a long way, eh? Heh.)
Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
These melted snowman cookies are a fun twist on holiday cookies, don’t you think? “Oh no, mom! The snowman cookies melted!” Ha! But they didn’t! Made with white fondant and cut-out with a paring knife in a free form style, these adorable cookies will have kids and friends alike oohing and ahhing!
Best Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
The mini Reese’s Peanut Butter cup hats kill me with their adorableness atop these cookies on their cute little snowman heads. Am I right? Look at their little crooked peanut butter cup hats! So cute (and delicious, if I do say so myself)! 🙂
Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe for the Holidays
The kids can most certainly help you make this holiday cookie recipe, but just be careful with the paring knife usage with little fingers. You can always do the cutting part yourself or perhaps use a butter knife for them (just be prepared for a little tearing of the fondant with a butter knife – that’s why a paring knife is recommended, so the cuts are clean). You could even bargain with the kids that you use the knife and they decorate the snowmen? I’m all about bargaining with the kids and/or taking turns, you know? 🙂
Christmas Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
These fun melted snowman cookies have snowman faces made of fresh homemade buttercream icing. You can certainly opt out of doing that in favor of using a marshmallow if you want instead, but you’ll still need make some buttercream so that the head, hat, and eyes will stick on nicely! 😉
How to Make Melted Snowman Cookies
To make these adorable Melted Snowman Cookies, you will need the following:
- Your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe (enough to make a dozen round cookies – about 2 inches in diameter) Love this sugar cookie recipe by my friend Kelly!
- White fondant
- Cornstarch for rolling
- Softened butter
- Confectioners’ sugar
- Milk
- Miniature chocolate chips
- Miniature peanut butter cups
- Mini pretzel sticks
- Orange fondant
You will also need:
Before starting the decorating process, ensure that your cookies are completely cool – I love using a baking rack for this!
Begin with your white fondant décor: roll out your white fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Use the same cookie cutter that you used for your cookies and cut out 12 circles.
With a paring knife, give each fondant circle a unique shape – the snowman needs to look like it’s melting so have fun giving it each a different shape!
Press your shaped-fondant onto each cookie. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk. Beat on medium, gradually increasing the speed to high. Once completely mixed, scoop in a piping bag and pipe out one ½ inch circle on each cookie. This will be your snowman’s head.
Place one peanut butter cup on each cookie, right on top of the buttercream. Decorate with eyes and buttons using chocolate chips.
For the arms, break each pretzel stick in half and place on either side of each cookie. Pinch off small pieces of orange fondant and shape into triangles. Place on the face of each snowman. Serve and enjoy!
Melted Snowman Cookies
Ingredients
- Your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe enough to make a dozen round cookies – about 2 inches in diameter
- 5-6 oz. white fondant
- Cornstarch for rolling
- ½ stick butter softened
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- mini chocolate chips
- 12 mini peanut butter cups
- 6 mini pretzel sticks
- 1 oz. orange fondant
Instructions
- Before starting the decorating process, ensure that your cookies are completely cool.
- Begin with your white fondant décor: roll out your white fondant so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Use the same cookie cutter that you used for your cookies and cut out 12 circles.
- With a paring knife, give each fondant circle a unique shape – the snowman needs to look like it’s melting so have fun giving it each a different shape!
- Press your shaped-fondant onto each cookie.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk. Beat on medium, gradually increasing the speed to high. Once completely mixed, scoop in a piping bag and pipe out one ½ inch circle on each cookie. This will be your snowman’s head.
- Place one peanut butter cup on each cookie, right on top of the buttercream. Decorate with eyes and buttons using chocolate chips.
- For the arms, break each pretzel stick in half and place on either side of each cookie.
- Pinch off small pieces of orange fondant and shape into triangles. Place on the face of each snowman. Serve and enjoy!
Are you in love with these as much as I am? Check out my other snowman baked treats, holiday recipes, and my full recipe index for all dessert recipes, too! And have a happy holiday!
