Melted Snowmen Cookies

 these little creations are so much fun to make!

what you need:
your favorite sugar cookie recipe
powder sugar
water
vanilla
medium marshmallows
different color icings

here's what you do

The sugar cookies

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

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in 

the dry ingredients. Drop teaspoonfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets, you don't want them perfectly circle they need to be a little odd shaped! Bake for 8 to 10 minutes remove and cool on wire cooling rack

While the cookies are cooling you will need to make you glaze


1 1/2 cup Powder Sugar
1/2 cup of water 
1/2 Teaspoon vanilla


mix together in bowl till powder sugar is dissolved adding more water if needed remember its always better to have more glaze then not enough! once your sugar cookies are cooled slide a piece of foil under your cooling rack and you can spoon puddles of the glaze onto the cookies its ok if it runs off they need to look like melted water


you will need to work fast for this next part.

on a foil covered cookie sheet you will need to place the number of MEDIUM marshmallows you will need(one for each cookie you've made) place in a warm oven(250F) for 3 to 5 minutes... you don't want them browned just kinda melted! remove from over and working fast place one marshmallow on the edge of each cookie smushing them down a little. give about 10 minutes to dry and then decorate!

To decorate you will need black and orange icing(the other colors are up to you) and ziploc bags. you can easily make black using chocolate icing and a little blue food coloring. to make the coal eyes and the mouths fill a ziploc bag with the black icing and snip a VERY small hole in the corner do the same with the orange for the nose! I had some that had scarfs on in blue red green and orange too but didn't take photos of them!

I also used a uncooked marshmallow and tore it in small pieces and made them little balls so it looked like snow balls