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Melted Snowman Cookies

Soft sugar cookies topped with a 'melted puddle' of royal icing and a little snowman face. Almost too cute to eat!
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Servings: 24 cookies (about)
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter 2 sticks, softened
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • mini chocolate chips eyes and coal mouth
  • orange candy jimmies or sprinkles carrot noses
Royal icing
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp meringue powder or 1 egg white
  • 3 to 4 tbsp water

Equipment

  • 2 bowls
  • Rolling pin
  • 3-inch round cutter
  • Baking sheets

Method
 

  1. Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
  2. Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt; mix into the wet ingredients. Chill the dough 1 hour.
  3. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Roll the dough 1/4 inch thick and cut 3-inch rounds. Bake 9 to 11 minutes, until just set. Cool completely.
  4. Whisk the icing ingredients to a thick but spreadable consistency. Spread a "melted puddle" circle of white icing on each cookie.
  5. Press in mini chocolate chips for the eyes and coal smile, and an orange jimmy slightly off-center as the carrot nose. Let the icing harden.

Notes

  • Chill the dough 1 hour before rolling.
  • Mix the icing thick but spreadable.
  • Let the icing harden before stacking.