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The easy-peasy recipe for snowman cookies will make little bakers' hearts beat faster. Super easy & delicious!
Don’t we all wish for a lovely “white Christmas” with fluffy snow? Well, I can't guarantee snow for Christmas... But things are different with snowman cookies!
Today we're baking delicious and easy snowman cookies together from vanilla shortcrust pastry with colorful, chocolate decorations! Let's go!
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Recipe for our vanilla snowman cookies
Dieses Rezept ist besonders für die ganz kleinen Bäcker geeignet: beim Ausstechen kann nicht viel schief gehen und auch das Bepinseln der Schneemann-Plätzchen mit einem Backpinsel macht den Minis sehr viel Spaß! Aber wie immer gilt, das Dekorieren ist an Spaß nicht zu toppen! 😉
To be sure, you can find my tips for baking cookies with children here.
Mini tip: If the number of cookies is too high for you, perpare half of the dough first!
Ingredients
Ingredients for approx. 50-55 snowman cookies
Shortcrust pastry
- 600 g flour
- 200 g sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 250 g soft butter
- 2 packets of vanilla sugar, each 15 g, (or 3 tsp Vanillakipferl spice from Just Spices*)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- some flour for rolling out the cookie dough
Decoration
- 100 g white chocolate
- lots of small, colorful chocolate beans (we used the small Smarties)
- 50-55 chocolate carrots*
- black sugar paint*
Baking accessories
Kitchen scales, mixing bowl, cling film, rolling pin, round cookie cutter* or a glass, spreading knife, baking paper, baking tray, cooling rack, cooking pot & melting bowl
Preparation
- Put all the ingredients for the dough in a mixing bowl and knead with your hands (or a food processor) into a firm dough.
- Then wrap the cookie dough in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, ideally 60 minutes.
- Now sprinkle the work surface and rolling pin with a bit of flour and roll out about a third of the dough on the work surface to a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Meanwhile, the remaining dough stays in the fridge so that it doesn't get too warm.
- Before cutting out the snowman cookies, preheat the oven to 175°C.
- Now you and your kids cut out as many round circles from the dough as possible.
- Using a spreading knife, place the cut-out circles on a baking tray lined with baking paper and place them in the preheated oven for approx. 8-9 minutes. The cookies are still a little soft at this point, but will harden as they cool.
- Next, slowly melt the white chocolate in a water bath.
- Now your kids brush the cooled snowman cookies with the melted chocolate and decorate each cookie with a chocolate carrot nose and five small chocolate buttons as a mouth. After the chocolate has dried, use the black sugar pen to paint the eyes on the snowman cookies!
Preparation in pictures
My kids & I wish you and your kids lots of fun baking the vanilla snowman cookies! And if you would like to bake something special for St. Nicholas Day I can recommend our Santa Claus cookies to you. Santa Claus may not be St. Nicholas, but the cookies will definitely taste wonderful on December 6th too! 😉
Have a nice 2nd Advent!
Yours, Lia
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