Snowman Christmas Cookies Recipe

Snowman Christmas Cookies Recipe Snowman Christmas Cookies Recipe photo by Taste of Home Rating 4

While my family loves the subtle cheesecake flavor of these cookies, I like the fact that I don't need to use a cookie cutter to shape them. The scrumptious snowmen look so cute on a cookie tray. —Cathy Medley, Clyde, Ohio

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Snowman Christmas Cookies Recipe
  • Prep: 45 min. + chilling Bake: 15 min./batch
  • Yield: 50 Servings
45 15 60

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
  • 2-1/4 cups sugar, divided
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 50 pretzel sticks
  • Frosting of your choice
  • Orange gumdrops

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
  • Shape dough into 1-in., 3/4-in. and 1/2-in. balls. For each snowman, gently press one of each size ball together; gently roll in remaining sugar. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Break pretzel sticks in half; press into the sides of each cookie, forming arms.
  • Bake at 325° for 15-18 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute before removing to wire racks. Decorate as desired using frosting and orange gumdrop noses. Yield: about 4 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 119 calories, 5 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 19 mg cholesterol, 105 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1 fat.

Originally published as Snowmen Cookies in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2009, p103

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Reviewed on Dec. 19, 2010 by sstetzel

They may have used edible glitter in the picture instead of traditional colored sugar you can buy in the store. That would make it shine more. Of course - the special lighting they use for photography probably helps too. ;)

Reviewed on Dec. 19, 2010 by cinlyn

These are adorable cookies, BUT the recipe says it makes 4 doz. I could only get 2 doz. out of it even after adjusting the size of the dough balls, making them much smaller. They are very time consuming and really don't taste as good as I thought they would after baking. Sugar doesn't shine like in the picture either, so I thought they could use some icing over the whole snowman, making it even more time consuming.

 
 

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