Festive marshmallow snowmen with chocolate hats and buttons!
Ingredients (for 8 snowman)
- 24 white marshmallows
- Mini smarties or any small chocolate beans with coloured shells (I got mine from Tesco, as you can see in the picture below)
- Edible black or brown decorating pen (or melted chocolate)
- A tube of writing icing/ icing you’ve mixed up yourself
- 8 Rolos (one packet should be enough). These are milk chocolate shells filled with caramel. If you don’t have them where you are, I’m sure you can find an alternative, such as Hershey’s kisses.
- 8 wooden skewers
- Optional: strawberry (and other flavour) laces to make scarves for the snowmen. I had been planning to do this but in the end I decided they weren’t necessary!
Marshmallow snowmen method
Push 3 white marshmallows onto a skewer, making an effort to get the skewer through the centre of each of them so they line up more or less straight. Push the skewer through the top of the last marshmallow so there’s enough to stick into the Rolo/chocolate hat (about 5mm should be enough). My skewers were rather long so I cut them in half before starting.
Next, draw on the eyes, mouth and arms. I used an edible decorating pen, which made the job very easy. However, you could pipe on melted chocolate using a very fine piping tip. If you have steady hands and the skill for this, I take my hat off to you.
Now stick on the mini Smartie nose and buttons. You can do this with a little icing. I happened to have writing icing in a tube, so it was almost like using edible glue to put a small blob of icing on the back of each Smartie and then press them onto the marshmallow. You could also make up some icing by mixing icing sugar and water together and use this to fix the Smarties on.
The snowmen can be persuaded to stand up if you stick the end of the skewer into another marshmallow:
Like the marshmallow penguins I made a previous Christmas, the best thing about the snowmen is that they all seem to have their own personality! The one here below with an orange nose looks like a cheerful chap having a good gossip with his friend next to him:
These festive marshmallow snowmen will keep for weeks in an airtight container, just make sure you keep them away from heat so their hats don’t start to melt.
Just be careful when giving them to little people to eat to prevent any accidents with the end of the skewer.
If you’re looking for more marshmallow recipes, try:
Chocolate marshmallow penguins.
These are so cute! I’d be tempted to make a melted one…
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I accidentally melted one of their hats by leaving him in a warm place! Still tasted great though! π
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One year, I made melted snowmen Christmas cookies for a bake sale and they were the first things to sell out!
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I’ve made them before and they always make people smile! π
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Kid-friendly, thatβs for sure. βοΈ
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My son got in big trouble because he sneakily ate 4 of them without permission! So definitely a hit π
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These look fun. Very cheeky chaps.
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That’s what I thought! They made me smile π
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What fun! xx
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When I saw a picture of them on Pinterest they were so cute I knew I had to try to make them! π
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so cute!
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Thank you! It did make them a little more difficult to eat π
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These are so cute!
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Thank you π I saw a picture of them ages ago and have been wanting to make them ever since! Finally got the chance!
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Love these β€οΈ
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Thank you! I’ve been really looking forward to making them π Sweet and cheerful! x
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Super cute!!! My kids will love this!
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My boys loved them. The eldest so much he sneaked 4 without asking and got into big trouble! Best to hide the finished snowmen or lock them up π€£π
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Oh my! Thanks for the tip ππ€£ Mine would do the same too!!
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They’re too cute, I couldn’t eat them, haha! xx
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I had to give the ones I’d given names to my children to eat! haha! I managed an anonymous one π xx
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Love these! So cute! πβοΈβοΈ
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Thank you! I’ve had to make 2 batches now they’ve been so popular with the kids π
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So cute! I personally am not a fan of marshmallows but this was so good! π₯°
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Thank you! π
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This is a great recipe!! Thanks for sharing! The snowmen are sooooo cute π
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Thank you! π
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