Hey Y’all!
It’s Christmas time! What comes with the joys of Christmas time? Food! Last Christmas, I gave you guys a “Nutella Mug Cake” recipe – if you want to read that, I’ve leave a link right here --> ( http://the-happythoughts.tumblr.com/post/135373138853/hey-yall-the-holiday-season-is-here-and-i-could ) So, to carry on that tradition, I thought I would give you another holiday style treat. Yum! If you love the movie Frozen and all things cold and cutesy – I introduce to you - “MELTED SNOWMAN COOKIES!”
You’ll need – -250 g of cold butter -Half a cup of granulated sugar -1 large egg -2 and a half cups of flour -1 teaspoon of vanilla extract -Pinch of Salt (This gives about 35 cookies)
Directions 1. Put all of these ingredients into a food processor or a bowl and mix until the dough forms a smooth ball. Then, wrap the dough with cling wrap and leave to chill in the fridge for an hour. 2. After this, roll the dough out to a thickness of about 3mm and sprinkle lightly with flour. 3. Cut out circular shapes. They can be as big as you want, depending on how big you want your cookies to be. Just remember that the cookies will expand in the oven! 4. Lay the shapes out on a tray. Remember to put down a baking sheet so the cookies don’t stick to the tray! 5. Bake at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes and then cool on a wire rack. 6. Once they are cool, it is time to decorate! You can decorate them however you want but if you want to get the “melted snowman” effect – follow the next instructions. 7. Firstly, you need to cover the top of the cookie in icing to get a “puddle” effect because your snowman has melted! Put 1 and a half cups of Icing sugar, 25g of butter and 1 tablespoon of water or milk into a bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until nice and glossy. I recommend putting the icing on after the cookies aren’t hot, otherwise the icing will melt and drip off. 8. While the icing is still wet, put a small white marshmallow anywhere on the cookie for the head. 9. From here, you can use anything to create the arms, nose, buttons and what not. You can use chocolate chips, edible gel, sprinkles! Anything really!
Happy Baking!
Happiness is… Snowman cookies! Until next Wednesday… Have Happy Thoughts