These adorable & Easy Melted Snowman Cookies are the cutest cookies for the winter holidays! You'll love how quick and easy these homemade sugar cookies are to make frosted with a 4-ingredient sugar cookie icing with easy decorations to dress them up as melting snowmen!
Whip up a batch for your next cookie swap or feature them when baking with the kids! You'll also love these Grinch Sugar Cookies and these Best No Chill Sugar Cookies for more Christmas fun!
Why I Love These Snowman Cookies!
- Super easy And delicious NO ROLL sugar cookies, so no rolling pin or chilling is needed for these sugar cookies – Just scoop cookie dough balls and bake!
- Easy sugar cookie icing uses 4 main ingredients that are easy to mix up in a bowl! No mixer needed! Add black food coloring gel
for color of eyes or buy some black cookie icing
.
- Simple cute decorating accessories for our snowmen! You can add more if you want to embellish, like adding a hat, scarf or stick arms!
- Fun to make these cookies with the kids! They will have a blast adding half marshmallows, buttons and noses!
- Perfect for your holiday cookie platter or gifting to friends, neighbors and family!
Good News! This Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe is actually quite easy to make even though these decorative cookies look like a lot of time was spent making them!
To make them you’ll start with the cookies that are made using pantry staple ingredients you likely already have on hand. Plus, we'll frost them with this perfect sugar cookie icing. It is sweet and delish, not overpowering the flavor of your sugar cookies. It is the best decorating icing too for these cookies and you it's ok if they're a little messy! They are melting snowmen after all! 😉
Decorating sugar cookies doesn’t need to be intimidating and with this Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe, you'll see how easy it is, once you get the hang of it! Are you ready to have some cookie fun?
Ingredients You Need
Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies
- shortening
- unsalted butter, softened
- granulated sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract
- baking powder
- salt
- all-purpose flour
Easy Sugar Cookie Icing
- powdered sugar
- vanilla extract
- light corn syrup
- milk
- Black food coloring gel
(for eyes)
Decorating Accessories
How to Make Melting Snowman Sugar Cookies
Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper
.
- Using mixer, cream shortening, butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Combine baking powder, salt and flour in a separate bowl. Gradually add to the wet mixture until blended.
- Using ¼ cup cookie scoop
, scoop dough ball and place on parchment paper lined baking sheet and press top of cookies half way down or for a thicker cookie, do not press down at all. Cookies will spread out, leave 2 inches in between.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes.
- Let cookies cool on wire baking rack
. Make cookie icing.
Easy Sugar Cookie Icing
- Beat powdered sugar, vanilla, corn syrup and 1 tablespoon milk in a small bowl until smooth.
- Add milk a little at a time to reach desired consistency. Frosting should be thick, yet hold it's shape well enough but still spreads.
- Set aside some of the sugar cookie icing and stir in black food coloring to reach desired color for eyes.
- Now it's time to assemble the cookies!
Assembling Melted Snowman Cookies
Now it’s time to assemble your our Melting Snowman Cookies!
- Place a halved marshmallow on each cookie for the head of the snowman using some of the frosting as glue to adhere to the cookie.
- Spoon a dollop of icing onto the marshmallow and the middle of the cookie, spreading it out to make a melted snowman blob. Frosting should be thick, yet holds it shape well enough but still spreads.
- Add black gel food coloring to some of the icing to pipe on arms and eyes. Do the same with the orange food coloring to make the carrot nose or use mini orange m&ms.
- Drop on some mini M&Ms for buttons.
- Feel free to add licorice for a scarf or mini m&ms for the eyes or buttons or make a hat using mini reese cups
! Whatever you can find, make it your own creation.
- Allow icing to set before gifting in plastic wrap or cellophane or preparing for a cookie swap or cookie tray! Place in fridge or freezer to quick set the cookies for 5-10 minutes for quick results.
I made these cookies large sized using a ¼ cup cookie scoop
- 8-10 minutes for small cookies
- 10-12 minutes for medium cookies
- 12-14 minutes for large cookies
You're going to have so much fun celebrating winter with this adorable Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe! Let's bake some love!
More Fun Party Desserts!
- Pillsbury™ Frosted Snowmen on a Stick
- Soft Sugar Cookies
- How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake
- Chocolate Chip Mini Bundt Cakes
- Valentine Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Icing
- Best Soft Sour Cream Cookies
- Apple Crisp Cheesecake Bars
- Santa's Christmas Trash Cookies
- Iced Oatmeal Cookies
- Best-Ever White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Easy Melted Snowman Cookies
Ingredients
Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies
- ⅓ cup shortening
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons
Easy Sugar Cookie Icing
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
- Black food coloring gel for eyes
Decorating Accessories
- Mini m&m’s
Instructions
Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using mixer, cream shortening, butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Combine baking powder, salt and flour in a separate bowl. Gradually add to the wet mixture until blended.
- Using ¼ cup cookie scoop, scoop dough ball and place on parchment paper lined baking sheet and press top of cookies half way down or for a thicker cookie, do not press down. Cookies will spread out, leave 2 inches in between.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes.
- Let cookies cool on wire rack. Make icing.
Easy Sugar Cookie Icing
- Beat powdered sugar, vanilla, corn syrup and 1 tablespoon milk in a small bowl until smooth.
- Add milk a little at a time to reach desired consistency. Frosting should be thick, yet hold it's shape well enough but still spreads.
- Set aside some of the sugar cookie icing and stir in black food coloring to reach desired color for eyes.
- Now it's time to assemble the cookies!
Assembling Melted Snowman Cookies
- Now it’s time to assemble your our Melting Snowman Cookies!
- Place a halved marshmallow on each cookie for the head of the snowman using some of the frosting as glue to adhere to the cookie.
- Spoon a dollop of icing onto the marshmallow and the middle of the cookie, spreading it out to make a melted snowman blob. Frosting should be thick, yet holds it shape well enough but still spreads.
- Add black gel food coloring to some of the icing to pipe on arms and eyes. Do the same with the orange food coloring to make the carrot nose or use mini orange m&ms.
- Drop on some mini M&Ms for buttons.
- Feel free to add licorice for a scarf or mini m&ms for the eyes or buttons. Whatever you can find, make it your own creation.
- Allow icing to set before gifting in plastic wrap or cellophane or preparing for a cookie swap or cookie tray! Place in fridge or freezer to quick set the cookies for 5-10 minutes for quick results.
Notes
- 8-10 minutes for small cookies
- 10-12 minutes for medium cookies
- 12-14 minutes for large cookies
2pots2cook says
At the end, I've made several batches since it was such a huge hit Kim!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keeping for the next season!
2pots2cook says
Adorable! Will make to make my nephew happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kim Lange says
He will love them!! xo