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