Snowmen

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 210 g butter
• 280 g flour
• 100 g ground almonds
• 70 g sugar
• 1 small bottle(s) of butter-vanilla flavoring
• 500 g powdered sugar
• 10 pieces of confectionery (dominoes)
• 10 pieces of confectionery (chocolate wreaths)
• 10 pieces of sweets (wine gum strings), thin
• 1 pack of food coloring (sugar decorating pens)

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 2 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes

10 beautiful little cookie snowmen, sweet gifts

Briefly mix the butter, flour, ground almonds, sugar, and butter-vanilla flavoring with a dough hook, then knead thoroughly by hand. Then, form the dough into 30 equal, approximately “Raffaello”-sized balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in an oven preheated to 200°C for about 15 minutes. They should not become too dark. The balls must cool and harden completely. They will be very fragile when warm. Mix a glaze from powdered sugar and a little water to make a not-too-thin glaze. Roll the balls in this glaze to give them a snowman-white color. Stack three balls on top of each other to create the typical snowman shape. Allow the stacked balls to harden thoroughly, otherwise the snowman will fall apart during further processing. For the hats, make a very thick glaze. Spread a layer of icing on the underside of the dominoes, not too thick, and then press the dominoes onto the center of the chocolate wreaths. Allow the hats to harden thoroughly. Meanwhile, braid a scarf out of three wine gum wrappers each, but wait until the end to attach it. (It also looks pretty if you wrap just one wine gum wrapper around the snowman’s neck several times.) Using very thick icing, place the hats on the snowmen and press them down lightly. Allow the top hats to dry. Use the sugar markers to draw on the eyes, mouth, and carrot nose. Finally, place the scarf around the snowman’s neck.