Annabel Karmel's melting snowman cookies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus chilling and cooling time
- Easy
- Makes 16 cookies
- 225g butter
- 225g plain flour
- 100g cornflour
- 100g caster sugar
For the decoration
- 500g royal icing
- 300ml water
- 2 tsp glycerine
- large white marshmallows
- orange Tic Tacs
- black writing icing pen
- fizzy strawberry strips or similar
- Mini Smarties
Method
step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4
step 2
Measure the butter, plain flour, cornflour and caster sugar into a food processor. Whizz until combined. Tip out and knead lightly to form a soft dough. Chill in the fridge for 10 minutes
step 3
Roll out the dough and stamp out 16 circles, each about 8cm in diameter. Place on baking sheets and chill for a further 20 minutes. Then bake for about 15 minutes (they will spread a little). Leave to cool
step 4
To make the icing, whisk the royal icing and half of the water in a free-standing electric mixer until the icing is thick and shiny. Add the glycerine and whisk again. Add the rest of the water 1 tbsp at a time, until the mixture is the consistency of thick yoghurt
step 5
Put the cooled cookies on some non-stick paper. Spoon over the icing, so it drops off the edge of the cookies to look like melted snow. Place a marshmallow at the outer edge of each cookie
step 6
Push a Tic Tac into the marshmallow to make a nose, draw on 2 eyes with black writing icing and place a fizzy strawberry strip around the base of each marshmallow to make a scarf. Finally, use 3 Mini Smarties to make little coloured buttons