Today: Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe & Sandwich Cookie Snowglobes

Today Show: Parents Magazine Holiday Cookies

Parents Magazine food editor Jenna Helwig joined Kathie Lee & Hoda to make some holiday cookies, like Melted Snowman Cookies and Sandwich Cookie Snowglobes. Also try Marshmallow Dreidels and Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies.

Today Show: Parents Magazine Sandwich Cookie Snowglobes Recipe

This is a no-bake recipe that is great for the little artist in your family. Who knew there were edible markers? “When I was born in 1852, we didn’t have any of this stuff,” Kathie Lee said.

Ingredients

• 1 White Fudge Oreo
• Vanilla Candy Melts
• 1 Grasshopper Fudge Mint Cookie
• Sprinkles and/or Edible Glitter/Paint

Directions

1. Spoon warm vanilla melt onto the Oreo. Sprinkle with glitter in the shape of a snow bank.
2. Decorate with shapes such as penguins. Use vanilla melts as glue. Or draw on the Oreos using edible markers.
3. Paint vanilla melt on the side of the Oreo and put it on top of the grasshopper cookie to create a snowglobe look.

Kathie Lee & Hoda: Parents Magazine Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe Ingredients

“These cookies are great,” Jenna said of the Melted Snowman Cookies. Fruit leather makes a scarf, and the finished product looks great.

• 3 16 1/2-oz tubes refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough
• 6 tbsp Meringue Powder
• 3 tbsp Warm Water
• Black Food Coloring Paste
• 48 Marshmallows
• Orange Rolled Fruit Leather (in 6 pieces)
• 2 16-oz packages Confectioner’s Sugar
• 1 tsp Cream of Tartar
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• Orange Food Coloring Paste
• Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate pieces

Parents Magazine: Today Show Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe Directions

1. Bake sugar cookie dough as directed and let it completely cool.
2. Combine confectioner’s sugar with cream of tartar and meringue powder.
3. Add water and vanilla. Beat on low to combine. Then beat on high for eight or nine minutes, until stiff.
4. Transfer 1/2 cup icing to a bowl and tint it black with the black paste.
5. Transfer 1/4 cup icing to a separate bowl and tint it orange with the orange paste.
6. Transfer icings to separate zip-top freezer bags. Seal and snip off one small corner from each bag for piping.
7. Use black icing to create dots on each marshmallow as eyes. Use orange icing to pipe a thin vertical nose line. Let icing dry for about half an hour.
8. Stir 3 tbsp warm water into the leftover white icing to thin it for spreading. Spread it to make a puddle shape on each cookie.
9. Pipe black icing on the sides of each cook to make arms. Use a toothpick to help make tips for the arms.
10. Place a marshmallow near the top of each cookie, over the icing.
11. Set three chocolate pieces, with tips down, in a line down the middle of each cookie to create buttons.
12. Wrap a strip of fruit leather around each marshmallow for a scarf effect.