Taste of Home
Snowman Cookies
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 20 min./batch + cooling
YIELD: 4 dozen.
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
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1 cup butter, softened
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1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
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2 cups sugar
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1 large egg
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1/4 teaspoon almond extract
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1/4 teaspoon coconut extract
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3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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Miniature semisweet chocolate chips, and green and red M&M's minis
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FROSTING:
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1 cup confectioners' sugar
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1/8 teaspoon coconut extract
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2 to 4 teaspoons 2% milk
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Red and/or green food coloring
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Miniature milk chocolate kisses, unwrapped
Directions
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1.
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.
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2.
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.
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3.
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.
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4.
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.
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5.
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.
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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