Recipes
Tanya Burr's snowmen biscuits
'Whatever age, you'll love these cute Christmas cookies - a brilliant edible crafts product for children'
'Whatever age, you'll love these cute Christmas cookies - a brilliant edible crafts product for children'
(67 votes)
Cook: 45 Mins
Serves: 20
Price: 24p per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 46g serving contains
Energy
857kj
205kcal
857kj
205kcal
10%
Fat
9.5g
9.5g
Med
14%
14%
Saturates
6.0g
6.0g
Med
30%
30%
Sugars
16.9g
16.9g
High
19%
19%
Salt
0.01g
0.01g
Low
0%
0%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
1862kj/445kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
1862kj/445kcal
Ingredients
110g caster sugar
225g unsalted butter, softened
275g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
200g icing sugar
3–4 tbsp milk
Ready-made writing icing in tubes (a few different colours)
20 mini marshmallows orange jelly slices, or other jellied orange sweet mini chocolate chips or chocolate-coated puffed rice
Method
1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ gas mark 4. Line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper.
2
Put the sugar and butter in a bowl and cream together until thick and pale. Stir in the flour until everything is mixed together.
3
Dust the work surface with flour then tip the mixture out onto the surface and work it into a disk with your hands, gathering in all the crumbly bits as you go and work them into a dough.
4
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5mm then cut out 20 circles with the 7cm cutter, re-rolling scraps of dough as necessary and arranging them on the lined baking sheets as you go.
5
Bake the cookies in the oven for 13–15 minutes, or until they are golden brown, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
6
While waiting for the cookies to cool, decorate your snowmen’s faces by using writing icing in tubes to draw eyes and a mouth on individual marshmallows. Use orange jelly slices cut into tiny wedges for a carrot nose. Allow the decorated faces to set.
7
Make the icing by putting the icing sugar in a bowl and stirring in the milk little by little until you have a thick, smooth icing that isn’t runny.
8
When the cookies are completely cool, spoon a little white icing onto each one – it’s meant to look like a puddle, so don’t worry about being too neat.
9
While the icing is still soft, put your marshmallow head in place. Use chocolate chips or chocolate-coated puffed rice for the coal buttons, and place these on while the icing is runny. Leave the icing to harden and set for about 10 minutes.