Snowmen

I have always liked the idea of making cookies or something for neighbors at Christmas, but finally the past couple of years I have actually done it. I think last year I made giant gingersnap cookies and the year before I made giant stick pretzels covered with chocolate and crushed oreos. (I guess I should have made giant snowmen this year, too late now.)

A while back, I saw a fun idea on this website and thought adapting that idea to make snowmen would be fun. It was fairly time consuming (actually I guess a lot of that time was just waiting while they were in the freezer, but still...). I think they turned out pretty cute.

I intended to do this more than a week ago, but with all the sickness in our house lately I just had my first good opportunity. Hopefully it's not too late to find some neighbors who are still in town!

From the looks of the picture above, there was a strong east wind in my kitchen at the time I took the photo.

If you want to make them there are more detailed instructions at the link above, but this is the nitty gritty: I combined a crumbled up, baked cake with a can of frosting, rolled it into balls of varying sizes, firmed up the balls in the freezer, put them on lollipop sticks, and coated them in melted chocolate. Bakerella is who I got the idea from. She has so many cute ideas and variations, but I didn't see that she did any snowmen.

We also made gingersnaps, but they are staying at our house.