Saturday, December 23, 2006

Coconut Snowmen Recipe

Coconut Snowmen
These are great fun on a winters day and were featured on the cover of Martha Stewarts magazine in December of 2000

Ingredients for 4 snowmen

Half gallon of vanilla ice cream
14 ounces of shredded coconut
1 tablespoon of marzipan and orange food coloring
Shoestring black licorce cut into small pieces for eyes, mouth and buttons
4 large marshmallows
4 chocolate wafer cookies
Confectioner's sugar

Line a baking pan with parchment paper then make three snowballs out of ice cream for each snowman varying in size.....these can be either made with different size scoops or with your hands..place on parchment paper and put back into the freezer for approxiamately 15 minutes till firm

Remove ice cream balls from freezer and roll in shredded coconut.....place back in freezer to firm

Add orange food coloring to marzipan until carrot color is achieved and shape into four noses

Add licorce piece for eyes and mouth and for buttons on other two balls of each snowman..press the three balls together and return to freezer till ready to serve

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