Marshmallows, pretzels, chocolate chips, gumdrops, icing, and vanilla wafers, oh my! Our Saturday diversion was making marshmallow snowmen. I was so excited when I saw the recipe for cute marshmallow snowmen in the January issue of the magazine All You. I looked forward to the bonding time the boys and I would have while making these fun confections. I even envisioned giving the finished products to children at church on Sunday. Of course the finished product that I envisioned looked like the product in the magazine. Unfortunately, the images in my mind are usually out of touch with reality.
Making the snowmen involved lots of icing on the table and floor. The activity also involved me repeatedly telling the boys to not put their fingers in their mouth. Their reply was always the same. “But I’m hungrrrry!!” At the end of our bonding time, most of the snowmen leaned. The remainer of the snowmen lay face down on the wax paper. One of the snowmen had five eyes. Another of the snowmen had already found its way into my son’s mouth. Well, the time did not go exactly as planned and the snowmen looked nothing like the picture. However, we all had a good time. We ate a bunch of sugar and have marshmallow snowmen to show off to the kids at our church potluck tomorrow. Bonding time was a success!
If you would like to attempt this gooey treat, here is what we did. I gave each little guy a wax paper working place. Then we added the following ingredients in the following order: vanilla wafer, icing, marshmallow (body), icing, marshmallow (head), flat gumdrop (we used a cup), regular gumdrop (hat). Next we added ½ pretzel stick in each side of marshmallow body for the arms and chocolate chips for face. We used more icing for the glue. Don’t worry if you mess up, it creates great family memories and adds character to the snowmen!
Sarah
