These melted snowman biscuits are a cute, easy festive bake.
I saw these cute snowmen biscuits on Hand Luggage Only. They’re really easy to make, so a great option if you’re short on time or if you’re baking festive treats with children.
I used my Christmas vanilla biscuit recipe which only uses 5 ingredients. Click on the link for the ingredients and instructions.
I used a large flower shaped cutter, but you could also use a large mug or glass to cut out round biscuits.
Other things you’ll need:
- A packet of white marshmallows
- Black writing icing (you can make your own) and/or an edible ink decoration pen
- Orange writing icing and another colour for the scarves
Decoration
I started with the snowmen heads. I used an edible ink decoration pen to draw on the eyes and mouths. You could use black writing icing, but that would be trickier. I used orange icing for their noses.
Mix up some white water icing by adding water to sieved icing sugar one teaspoon at a time. You want the icing to be quite thick so it will pool on the biscuits. I didn’t weigh out the icing sugar (sorry!), but 200g (7 oz) should be enough.
Drop a teaspoonful of the icing onto the centre of the biscuit and use the back of the spoon to spread it out. Place a marshmallow onto the wet icing.
Leave the white icing to set. This will take at least a couple of hours. When it’s set, use either your pen or black icing to draw on buttons and arms. Use your other colour to draw on the scarves.
Decoration tip: Take care when drawing the snowmen’s faces not to make the eyes too large or they’ll look like ghosts. And don’t give them eyebrows or you’ll end up with a snowman like the one I decided to call “evil Bob”:
If you’re looking for more festive baking ideas, you might like to try:
Dipped chocolate marshmallow penguins.
And remember, you can see a list of all the recipes on my blog by visiting my recipe index.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
I love these!
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Thank you! I’ve been wanting to make them for ages 🙂
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Love these – thanks
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Thank you 🙂
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Awww and yum
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Haha! You’re right. They’re *almost* too cute to eat!
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Almost is the word hahaha
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These are amazing, and “Evil Bob” made me giggle! 😀
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Thank you! I have no idea why I thought eyebrows would be a good idea!
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Adorable and easy! I love Evil Bob.
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Thank you! It was difficult to part with Bob, although I felt a bit better once he’d gone! 🙂
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These are superb!
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Thank you! I’m so glad I got round to making them this year. So easy!
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So much fun!
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I love them! I’m so pleased I had a chance to make them this year 🙂
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These are brilliant!
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Thank you! I had a slight wobble after I’d made them that perhaps children might find them upsetting (melted snowmen after all!), but the six year old and four year old who have sampled them think they’re brilliant – phew!! 🙂
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Phew indeed!
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Love this!
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Thank you! Me too 🙂 They’ve gone down well with the kids too!
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These are so much fun, my daughter would love to make them. And I love evil Bob!
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They are great! I’ve learned my lesson not to muck about with designs or you get evil snowmen! Had a similar experience with the marshmallow penguins I made last year when several of them looked insane! 🙂
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That just makes them even more fun!
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Love these and the penguins, both on my to do list. Brilliant
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You can now buy the candy eyes for the penguins in Asda, which makes them even easier to make (I had to order them online last year). I hope they turn out well for you 🙂
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Aw these are so cute!
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Thank you! I love them 🙂 Almost too cute to eat!
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These look so cool!! Love them!!
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Me too! And so easy to make 🙂
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I adore these Claire! I want to try them with my grandkids, super cute
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Thank you! I hope the kids love them – they went down very well with my son 🙂
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I am sure they did 😀
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We have made these before they are soooo cute!
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I love them – so easy to make as well!
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Omg such a cute idea!
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Great recipe
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Thank you 🙂
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Love all their little faces and expressions 🙂
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Me too! Wish I’d got the edible pen sooner – so much easier than faffing about with writing icing! 🙂
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