Melted Snowman Recipe

Melting Snowmen Recipe 

Yield 24 Biscuits

300g Cake Flour

200g Butter, cubed and softened

100g Castor Sugar

Pinch of Salt

24 White Marshmallows

Royal icing: 1 Egg White

300g Icing Sugar 

Drop of Lemon Juice 

Orange Rolled Fondant

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C and prepare a baking sheet.

2. Rub the cubed butter into the dry ingredients until the dough resembles breadcrumbs.

3. Gently work the breadcrumbs until the dough just comes together into a rollable paste.

4. Flour a work surface and roll the dough out to about 5mm, ensuring that the dough does not stick to the surface.

5. Cut out rounds using a cookie cutter, or an upturned glass.

6. Place the cookies onto a baking sheet and bake until just golden, 15 to 20 minutes.

7. Allow to cool on the tray before removing, approximately 15 minutes.

To decorate:

1. Make the royal icing by whipping together the three ingredients until a relatively stiff consistency, stiff enough to pipe and hold its shape. Split into four and colour one quarter black, the next green, the next red, lastly reserving some of the white for the puddle. 

2. Split the white royal icing into 2 and add another drop of lemon juice into the second portion of the icing. This will give a pourable consistency to the icing.

3. Pipe a puddle shape using the white icing a piping bag and a writing nozzle onto the centre of the cookie. Use some of the royal icing that is pourable to fill the puddle and place a marshmallow just off centre.

4. Using a piping bag and more fine writing nozzles, use each different colour to add on details, green for the buttons, red for a scarf or bowtie, black for the eyes and arms.

5. Lastly, make a little carrot nose using some of the orange fondant. Stick it in place using some of the white royal icing. 

Remember your imagination is your only limit! Get creative…