Description
Create adorable Melted Snowman Cookies with soft sugar cookies, smooth royal icing, marshmallows, and festive decorations to bring a wintery treat to your holiday table. These charming cookies feature dripping white icing to mimic melting snowmen, complemented by marshmallow hats, colorful M&Ms, and playful facial features piped with black icing.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies
- 12 sugar cookies
Icing
- 2 cups royal icing
- black gel food coloring
Toppings and Decorations
- 6 marshmallows, cut in half
- long orange sprinkles
- M&Ms
Instructions
- Dye Black Icing: Take 1/2 cup of your royal icing and add black gel food coloring until you reach your desired shade of black. Thin the black icing to a 15-second consistency (meaning the icing spreads out and smooths out on its own within 15 seconds).
- Prepare White Icing: Thin the remaining white royal icing to a 10-second consistency, making it slightly thicker than the black icing. Transfer both icings into separate piping bags and snip off a small tip for piping.
- Frost Cookies: Using the white icing, frost each sugar cookie generously, allowing the icing to drip naturally over the edges to create a melting snow effect.
- Add Marshmallow Hats and M&Ms: Immediately place the halved marshmallows toward the back of each cookie to form the snowman’s head. Arrange M&Ms below the marshmallows to represent buttons or decorations.
- Pipe Arms: While the white icing is still wet, pipe black stick arms extending out from the snowman’s head using the black icing to give the appearance of floating arms.
- Set the Cookies: Allow the decorated cookies to set at room temperature for 20-30 minutes so the icing hardens slightly before adding facial features.
- Decorate Faces: Use the black icing to pipe two eyes and a surprised ‘O’ shape for the mouth on each marshmallow head. Use leftover white icing to attach a long orange sprinkle for the snowman’s carrot nose.
Notes
- Thinning royal icing to the correct consistency is key to achieving smooth frosting that drips naturally without running off.
- You can make your own sugar cookies or use store-bought ones as a base.
- If you don’t have long orange sprinkles, finely cut orange candy or fondant pieces can substitute for the nose.
- Work quickly while icing is wet to secure marshmallows and M&Ms firmly.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature to keep icing fresh and crisp.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
