This melted snowman peanut butter cookies recipe or melted snowman cookies are super flavorful and decorated with fun snowman faces to get you ready for the holiday season. The cookie base itself it super soft and buttery and the contrast of the peanut butter cup on top just takes it to the next level. Follow along with this easy recipe to find out how to make them!
Since you are here and love holiday inspired Christmas cookies, check out this Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe, this Festive Marbled Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe, or these Grinch Sugar Cookies.
This is the Best Melted Snowman Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe!
The only thing better than peanut butter itself, is peanut butter with chocolate! Even more, we’re taking that irresistible flavor fusion one step further by using decadent and creamy white chocolate coating on top.
What sets this recipe apart is the charming visual presentation of a melting snowman on each cookie, as well as the recipe’s simplicity with easy ingredients that makes it perfect for family baking sessions.
The best part is that these cookies are not only delicious but also capture the essence of winter, Christmas time, and any and all holiday festivities to bring joy to your home!
Make these cookies for yourself or for to fill up your beautiful Christmas cookie boxes and gift to friends and family and watch these snowman cookies disappear in no time!
Ingredients for this Melted Snowman Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
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Peanut Butter Cookie Base
- Peanut Butter: Smooth and creamy peanut butter will be the flavor of the base of our cookie. Use processed over natural for better results.
- Butter: Butter gives a rich flavor and texture to the cookie. The better the quality, the better the flavor. If you’re someone who bakes or cooks regularly like I do, get yours in bulk from Costco or Sam’s Club. It’s very good quality and you save on price.
- Brown Sugar: Brown sugar is great because it adds a little moisture as well as sweetness to these cookies
- Granulated Sugar: White sugar is always a must as it gives pure sweetness without extra additives.
- Egg: A single egg is all you need to act as the glue that holds these cookies together.
- Vanilla Extract: Vanilla flavoring is in every cookie base as it enhances all the other flavors.
- All-Purpose Flour: Flour gives the cookies their structure as it absorbs the wet ingredients.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda: These ingredients help the cookies rise to give them a much lighter and fluffier texture.
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch is great for balancing out heavy ingredients like peanut butter.
- Salt: As with all sweet desserts, salt is essential in balancing the sweetness.
Toppings
- White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups: The key ingredient that gives these adorable, melted snowman cookies their white faces. White chocolate PB cups are perfect because they of course have the festive white color but also add an extra layer of peanut butter flavor!
- White Chocolate Chips: Melted white chocolate spreads over the peanut butter cup to cover the whole cookie.
- Candy Melts: Use green or black for the eyes, mouth, and buttons, and use orange for the nose. You can even use some red candy melts to create the scarf.
How to Make this Melted Snowman Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
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Prep and Bake the Cookies
- Preheat the oven, then line a large baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together with an electric mixer on high speed. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract then mix again until combined.
- Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt, and mix just until the flour mixture disappears.
- Using a large cookie scooper, scoop out 9 equally sized cookie dough balls, place them on the cookie sheet, and gently flatten to about ¾ inch in thickness. Bake in the preheated oven for 9 minutes.
- Once they’re baked, take them out and let them cool down for 10 minutes while still on the baking sheet. Make sure you set a timer; you still want the cookies to be warm, not room temperature, when you start decorating.
Decorate the Cookies
- When the 10-minute timer is up, take your white chocolate peanut butter cups out of the wrapper and place one upside down on top of each cookie. Gently press it down into the cookie.
- Pour your white chocolate chips into a bowl and microwave it in 30-second increments while stirring in between until it’s melted.
- Scoop and pour 1-2 tablespoons of melted chocolate on top of the cookie. With oven mitts, carefully grab the sides of the baking sheet and gently tap it up and down on the counter. This will help the melted chocolate spread more evenly across the top.
- Finally, melt your colored candy melts in the microwave in 15-30-second increments. I like to do this in a piping bag or ziplock bag before I cut the tip-off. Massage the chocolate until fully melted then snip off the edge and create the eyes, smile, and buttons. Do the same with the orange candy melts and create the nose. Allow everything to set and enjoy!
Why You Need to Make this Recipe!
- These snowmen cookies don’t take too much time to make and only require a handful of ingredients that you could easily find at the grocery store.
- It’s the cutest thing to add to your holiday cookie tray.
- You and your little helpers will have so much fun making these together.
- You can decorate the cute little snowmen any way you want!
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ
How to Store the Melted Snowman Peanut Butter Cookies
Storing these cookies is super easy. All you need to do is put them in an airtight container and keep them at room temperature for up to 4 days.
For longer storage, you can place them in the fridge or freezer. You could even take it a step further by wrapping them in plastic wrap before putting them in the container to keep them extra air tight. They should last for a week or two in the fridge and up to a couple of months in the freezer.
What If I Don’t Have White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups?
- Regular PB Cups: Since we are covering the peanut butter cup with melted white chocolate, you definitely could just use regular chocolate peanut butter cups. We used the white chocolate ones just to keep the flavor the same.
- Marshmallow: One of the cutest ways to go about this. isto spread your white chocolate on top of the cookie first then add a medium-sized marshmallow on top. Decorate it with the colored candy melts and enjoy!
What Other Ways Can I Decorate the Snowmen Faces?
- Miniature chocolate chips for eyes!
- Orange sprinkle for the carrot nose!
- Half of a Reese’s peanut butter cup miniatures for a peanut butter cup hat!
The Best Melted Snowman Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Melted snowman peanut butter cookies
Ingredients
Peanut butter cookie base
- ½ cup smooth peanut butter
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg at room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 & ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Decoration
- 9 white chocolate peanut butter cups
- ⅔ cup white chocolate chips melted
- 3 tablespoons black candy melts or semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
- 1 tablespoon orange candy melts melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F then line a baking sheet with parchement paper and set aside.
- Cream the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract then mix until combined.½ cup smooth peanut butter, ½ cup butter, ½ cup brown sugar, ⅓ cup granulated sugar, 1 egg at room temperature, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Add in the flour baking powder, baking soda, corn starch, and salt, and mix just until the flour mixture disappears.1 & ⅓ cup all-purpose flour, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon corn starch, ¼ teaspoon salt
- Using a large cookie scooper, scoop out 9 equally sized cookie dough balls, place them on a baking sheet, and gently flatten to about ¾ inch in thickness. Bake in the preheated oven for 9 minutes.
Decorate the cookies.
- When the 10-minute timer is up, take your white chocolate peanut butter cups out of the wrapper and place one upside down on top of each cookie. Gently press it down into the cookie.9 white chocolate peanut butter cups
- Pour your white chocolate chips into a bowl and microwave it in 30-second increments while stirring in between until it's melted. Scoop and pour 1-2 tablespoons of melted chocolate on top of the cookie.⅔ cup white chocolate chips
- With oven mitts, carefully grab the sides of the baking sheet and gently tap it up and down on the counter. This will help the melted chocolate spread more evenly across the top creating that melted snowman look.
- Finally, melt your colored candy melts in the microwave in 15-30-second increments. I like to do this in a piping bag or ziplock bag before I cut the tip-off. Massage the chocolate until fully melted then snip off the edge and create the eyes, smile, and buttons. Do the same with the orange candy melts and create the nose. Allow everything to set and enjoy!3 tablespoons black candy melts or semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon orange candy melts
Nutrition
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Alice
Made these for Christmas and they were a hit! I never thought PB & white chocolate would pair well together. I had to use thin PB cups instead of regular, but they still tasted really good. You can also use writing gel for baking if you don’t have dye or melting chocolate – which us what I did.