Snowman Cookies

Name: Snowman Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 dozen.
Cuisine: Comfort Food Desserts, Comfort Food Recipes
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened; 2 cups sugar; 1 large egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon almond extract; 1/4 teaspoon coconut extract; 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; Miniature semisweet chocolate chips, and green and red M&M's minis; FROSTING:; 1 cup confectioners' sugar; 1/8 teaspoon coconut extract; 2 to 4 teaspoons 2% milk; Red and/or green food coloring; Miniature milk chocolate kisses, unwrapped

Wrap these chocolate-topped snowmen in colored tissue and place them inside holiday containers. Like real snowmen, they disappear fast! —Betty Tabb, Mifflintown, Pennsylvania

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Miniature semisweet chocolate chips, and green and red M&M's minis
FROSTING:
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/8 teaspoon coconut extract
2 to 4 teaspoons 2% milk
Red and/or green food coloring
Miniature milk chocolate kisses, unwrapped

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. In another bowl, whisk flour and baking powder; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Refrigerate, covered, overnight.
Preheat oven to 325°. Shape dough into forty-eight 1-in. balls, forty-eight 3/4-in. balls and forty-eight 1/2-in. balls. On ungreased baking sheets, place one ball of each size, side by side, for each snowman.
Bake 18-20 minutes or until light brown. Remove from oven; cool on pans 2 minutes. Press on chocolate chips for eyes and M&M's for buttons. Carefully remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
For frosting, in a small bowl, beat confectioners' sugar, extract and enough milk to reach a piping consistency. If two colors of frosting are desired, transfer half of the frosting to another bowl and tint each with a different food coloring.
Cut a small hole in a corner of a food-safe plastic bag; fill with frosting. Pipe scarves on snowmen. Use frosting to attach chocolate kisses for hats.

Test Kitchen Tips

Replace the Hershey's Kiss hat with a fun-sized Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or OREO Cookie.

No time to pipe icing? Shoestring licorice or thinly sliced Fruit Roll-Ups also work well as a scarf.

Check out more adorable snowman-themed recipes here.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 139 calories, 6g fat (4g saturated fat), 20mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 0 fiber), 2g protein.

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fallharvest

Dec 25, 2015

Didn't like this recipe at all. didn't have good taste. They spread out and I had fat snowmen, Will not make agan
rochellesdsss

Nov 30, 2015

Love this*
chsmith

Dec 19, 2014

Made these exactly by the recipe for a cookie swap and they turned out great! They are really cute and taste good too.
katiebabe1737

Dec 16, 2013

Where can I find miniature kisses?Kate C.
alicat387

Dec 16, 2013

Great for little kids! Delicious.
nanepan

Dec 11, 2013

The cookie is OK -- doesn't spread out at all. So we ended up with 3 balls barely stuck together. They broke apart. Followed the recipe to a "t". Won't be making again.
MollyLawrence

Dec 7, 2010

I love this recipe! Except I make one round cookie and in the last couple of minutes of baking I press a Butterfinger or Reeses Bell in the cookie. It is amazing!
sharivw

Dec 3, 2009

I make these cookies every year for my Family's annual Christmas Bunco Party. They are delicious! I serve them on colored tissue paper.