Page 15 - Spider Magazine for Kids (January 2020)
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What to Do:
1. Combine egg, vanilla, salt, and baking
soda in large bowl.
2. Add sugar and flour and mix.
3. Use a fork to mash butter into mixture
and form dough.
4. With clean hands, roll small pieces of
dough into one-inch balls.
5. Place two balls on each skewer, leaving
a space the width of your finger at the
top. Carefully add the third ball, piercing
it only halfway through.
6. Grease cookie sheet. Lay snowpeople
one inch apart on sheet. Refrigerate
for 30 minutes.
7. Preheat oven to 350°F* and bake
snowpeople until golden brown,
about 12 minutes.
8. Cool snowpeople on a wire rack.
9. To make icing, combine confectioners’
sugar and water.
10. Ice the front of each snowperson. Use
dried fruit and candy for eyes, noses,
but tons, and hats.
11. Let cookies set for a few hours.
12. Tie a ribbon around each stick and
place in a vase for a party decoration.
Or to give as gifts, put each snowperson
in a clear plastic bag and tie the open
end shut.
P Have an adult help you with the hot oven.
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