Marshmallow Snowmen
Makes about 10
200g large white marshmallows
Brown writing icing
Coloured liquorice strips or fruit leather
Chocolate-coated mint sticks (such as Matchmakers)
Large chocolate drops
100g white mini marshmallows
Icing sugar, for dusting
About 10 cocktail sticks
Place the marshmallows on a tray. Push two large marshmallows on to each cocktail stick. Ask an adult to trim off any of the stick that is poking out of the top.
Using the writing icing, pipe dots and lines of icing to make the eyes, nose and mouth. Cut the liquorice strips or fruit leather into thin strips and carefully tie around the snowman’s neck for a scarf. To make the arms, break the chocolate-coated mint sticks in half and push into the sides of the large marshmallow.
Pipe a small blob of icing on to the top of the snowman’s head and position a large chocolate drop on top. Pipe another blob of icing in the middle of the chocolate drop and stick a mini-marshmallow on the very top.
Finally, using writing icing, pipe dots down the front of the snowman to look like buttons.
To serve, scatter icing sugar over the serving dish, arrange the snowmen on top and dust lightly with more sugar.
• Recipe from Christmas Cooking With Kids by Annie Rigg, in hardback by Ryland Peters Small, £14.99, rylandpeters.com
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