Snowman Cupcakes

Even if it’s not snowing outside your family can whip up a band of these merry marshmallow snowmen and all their winter wonderland fantasies become a reality.INGREDIENTS:

Cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe)
White icing
Large marshmallows
Waxed paper
Pretzel sticks
Decorators’ gel
Orange slice candy
Junior Mints
Thin Mints
Fruit leather

DIRECTIONS:
1. Take a cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) and frost it with white icing.

2. Flatten a large marshmallow on waxed paper with the palm of your hand.

3. Cut a second marshmallow in half horizontally, then stack the halves on the first marshmallow to form a torso and head.

4. Push a thin pretzel stick (or a toothpick) down through the snowman (this will help him stand up). Set your snowman on the cupcake.

5. Use decorators’ gel to create a mouth, eyes, and buttons.

6. Add pretzel stick arms.

7. Cut a wedge from an orange slice candy for a nose.

8. You can accessorize with a candy hat (a Junior Mint secured to a Thin Mint with icing) and a fruit leather scarf.