6 Simply adorable holiday recipes
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‘Tis the season to break out the cookie cutters, crank up the holiday tunes, and start churning out the holiday treats. Here are six recipes that result in show-stopping confections that are almost too cute to eat—but not quite.
- Melted snowman cookies. When a snowman melts in real life, it can be a sad experience for a child. But when he melts atop your cookie, it’s just downright adorable. This cute, edible craft uses sugar cookies as a base, smothered with white icing to create the melted portion of the snowman, and embellished with halved marshmallows, complete with orange-sprinkle noses and black icing eyes, as well as half-melted arms made from chocolate jimmies and mini M&Ms as buttons.
- Grinch Kranky Treats. If your family loves to watch The Grinch every year, then you should definitely whip up a batch of these Grinch-themed rice krispie treats. The addition of green food dye turns them a Grinchy shade of emerald, and when you slice the rice krispie treats into triangles and adorn them with an evil grin and yellow M&M eyes, they look just like this grouchy Christmas hero.
- Peanut butter reindeer cookies. If you already have a go-to peanut butter cookie recipe in your back pocket, there’s a cute and easy way to transform the cookies into edible Rudolphs. Before baking, stick a red M&M (with the “M” face down) near the bottom mid-point of the cookie, and add two brown mini M&Ms as eyes. Bake your cookies then, while they’re still warm, perch a pair of mini chocolate-covered pretzels sticking out near the top as Rudolph’s antlers.
- Christmas dipped pretzels. You prep these pretzels the same way you’d make any chocolate-covered pretzels, but use a nice holiday white chocolate instead of the typical brown. Before the chocolate cools, dip your pretzels in festive red or white sugar, a mix of red and green sprinkles, or any other holiday-themed embellishments you like.
- Mini marshmallow men. Mini snowmen made out of marshmallows take up their post on a toothpick in this sweet, festive treat. Start by filling a toothpick with three mini marshmallows, then dip the mini-snowman in melted white chocolate. Once it hardens, use melted chocolate and red candy wafers to add accents. Finally, dress the little guy in a red scarf made from fruit leather.
- Snowman buttons. With just a few simple touches, you can transform a chocolate sugar cookie into a snowman’s button. Find a simple chocolate sugar cookie recipe online, then whip it up and roll out your dough. Use a simple round cookie cutter to create your cookies, then add a smaller circle just inside the edges of the cookie and four pinpoints to mimic a button. You can criss-cross white frosting from one hole to another to create an even more authentic snowman button look.
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