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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Easy-to-Make Snowmen Marshmallows



Like everyone else, I'm super busy this week. But I wanted to take a moment to share something I made this afternoon that will go in the gift tins. These snowmen marshmallows are simply store-bought marshmallows with piped on chocolate "carrot" noses and dark chocolate "coal" eye and nose pieces.

I tinted some melted white chocolate (with a bit of solid shortening mixed in) with gel (not liquid) food coloring, then piped through an icing tip to make the "carrots." After all of the marshmallows had their noses, I added the eyes and mouth by dipping a toothpick into melted dark chocolate (with a bit of shortening added). Easy-peasy. 

As with all handcrafted items, some turned out better than others. The best will go into a bag to give in a tin with some homemade cocoa mix.


By the way, I got the idea from Williams-Sonoma, who sells these for $14.95 for a bag of 12. Going online, I found a few people who had made these at home. Just thought these were super cute and a great and easy addition to gifts of homemade cocoa or for adding to a special occasion cocoa bar.

4 comments:

  1. What a clever and cute "knock off". This will certainly add a cuteness factor to your hot chocolate mix. I've said before that I don't have good ideas, but that I can sometimes copy someone else's good idea! Love this.

    Merry Christmas Lili to you and yours.

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  2. $14.95? That's crazy, but people will pay it. Yours are adorable. I'm not sure I would wait for the hot chocolate to eat them.

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  3. Those are so cute. Out of the many great ideas you have for putting gifts together, this may be your best yet.

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  4. Those are so cute, Lili. And much more affordable to make your own.

    I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

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