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These adorable & Easy Melted Snowman Cookies are the cutest cookies for the winter holidays! You’ll love how quick and easy our homemade favorite sugar cookie recipe is 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

Mini m&m’s

How to Make Melting Snowman Sugar Cookies Recipe

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.

Cookie Sizes

I made these cookies large sized using a 1/4 cup cookie scoop. You can make them smaller or medium sized to get more cookies or double or triple the recipe! Just adjust your baking time and have fun!

8-10 minutes for small cookies
10-12 minutes for medium cookies
12-14 minutes for large cookies

More Variations

Add some flavoring extract to amp up your sugar cookie dough, with peppermint extract, butter pecan extract, almond extract or a lovely vanilla bean paste!
If you want to sub a sugar cookie mix for the homemade sugar cookie recipe, feel free to use that mix up when you don’t feel like making them from scratch, however, we highly recommend this favorite sugar cookie recipe!
Change out the sugar cookies for peanut butter cookies or chocolate cookies or Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies for a delicious twist!
Top cookies with melted white chocolate or a royal icing or buy some white cookie icing instead of our easy, homemade sugar cookie icing for a quick & fun idea!
Use any candies you have to top your cookies! Get creative! You can even use licorice and make some scarves! Add a halved peanut butter cup on top of the snowman’s head to give it a cute hat! Add some broken pretzels for flailing arms! See how you and the kids can have so much fun decorating!

You’re going to have so much fun celebrating winter with this adorable Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe! Let’s bake some love with our Christmas favorite sugar cookies!

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