These snowman cookies were made for EASY decorating! You don’t need to have piping skills for MELTED snowman cookies.

This is an easy way to decorate snowman cookies because melted snowmen are supposed to be a little messy! A scarf not perfectly in place, a missing eye, random branches... It’s all good!

Melted snowman cookies are so festive and easy to decorate! You don’t need to have a perfectly steady hand for any of it. You can pipe a puddle of snow in any shape. It can be a perfect circle but doesn’t have to be.

What You Need To Make These Cookies

Baked Cookies

Cookies can be any shape as long as they are flat. For my cookies, I used my cookies and cream sugar cookie dough but you can also use a classic sugar cookie dough or store bought mix.

Cookie Icing

Make one batch with medium consistency. You can use my easy cookie icing recipe or your own.

Make black icing for the eyes, mouth, buttons and branches. Choose any color or colors for the scarf. I used an orange sprinkle for the nose but if you are using icing for the nose, you will need orange. 

To dye my icing I used all natural food dye gels. To create a natural black icing, I mixed in some black cocoa powder. This is a trick I use to make black buttercream too!

Piping Bags

If you have disposable piping bags and #1 or #2 tips, you can fill those. If you don’t, you can also make your own piping cones out of parchment paper. This is my preferred way to ice cookies because it gives me more control. 

Marshmallows

A marshmallow is used as the base mound for the snowman’s head. You can cover it in icing or leave it as an exposed marshmallow. Use large marshmallows and cut them into thirds so that each third is a circular shaped disc. Scissors work best!

If you don’t want to use marshmallows, you can always make a mound of icing like I did on the cookie below. However, make sure the base icing is dry before making a mound or the icing will just sink into the rest of the surrounding icing. 

Cookie Sheet or Parchment Paper

The cookies will need to dry after you apply the white icing and after you are done all decorating. Lay them flat and single on plates, a large cookie sheet, or parchment paper.

How to Decorate Melting Snowman Cookies

Step 1
Outline and then fill in the base of your cookie. Use the shape of your cookie or draw any shape to fill in. It helps to use a bigger icing tip for filling in here. A number 2 tip will work nicely for both outlining and filling in.

Step 2 
Place a piece of marshmallow on top of the wet icing. 

Step 3
Optional: Add more icing over the top of the marshmallow. If using a sprinkles for a carrot nose, you will want to add it now while it is wet otherwise add the orange icing in step 5.

Step 4 
Let the white icing dry. It does not need to be completely dry but it should be dry enough so that more added icing on top does not sink into the white icing. 

Step 5 
Pipe around the marshmallow to create a scarf and draw a nose if using orange icing.

Step 6
With the black icing,  add eyes, mouth and branches.

I suggest doing each step for ALL of the cookies before proceeding to the next step. 

For more snowman cookie decorating ideas, you may also want to see my snowman cut out cookies.  They are simple to decorate and have such pretty scarves!