Lunches around here have been pretty fun lately because my son and I have been using our Christmas and winter cookie cutters to make edible art scenes. We love to decorate cookies, cupcakes and other sweets with sprinkles, candies and frosting so there is no reason why we can’t have just as much fun decorating healthy food, too. Edible art scenes are perfect for a cold, winter day when you need an indoor project and they are easy ways to trasnform an everday lunch or snack into something beautiful and special. We’ve discovered that sometimes playing with food can be perfectly acceptable!
The snowman sandwich is such a quick and easy lunch. Our snowman was a grilled ham and cheese melt but you can use the sandwich and cookie cutter shapes of your choice. If you have older kids, let them build their own scenes. My older son just turned three and he had a ball cutting out sandwiches, cheese and fruit with the cookie cutters. I hate to see all of my cookie cutters just collect dust in the pantry for most of the year so I was thrilled to find another use for them beyond the typical seasonal sugar cookies.
For another edible art project make snowmen out of peanut butter snack balls for an easy, healthy and fun snack that will give your kids the energy they need to play all day in the snow.
PrintEdible Art: Snowman Snacks
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2–4 servings 1x
Description
Create fun and healthy snowman-themed snacks using sandwiches and peanut butter balls, perfect for a winter day activity with kids.
Ingredients
Snowman Sandwich
- 1 sandwich of your choice (e.g., grilled ham and cheese)
- 4-6 snap peas
- 6-8 pretzel sticks
- 1 tsp mustard (for buttons)
- 1 small carrot, cut into a nose shape
- 1/2 cup frosted shredded wheat (to cover the plate as snow)
Peanut Butter Snack Ball Snowmen
- 1/2 cup (90g) peanut butter
- 1/2 cup (170g) honey
- 1 cup (90g) powdered milk
- 1 cup (90g) oats
- Raisins or chocolate chips, for decoration
- Coconut flakes and/or powdered sugar, for rolling (optional)
Instructions
Snowman Sandwich
- Press a snowman-shaped cookie cutter into the sandwich.
- Using a knife, trim the edges and peel the sandwich crust away from the cookie cutter. Save the scraps to eat or try to keep them intact for another edible art scene with the crust frame of the cut-out sandwich shape.
- Pop the snowman sandwich onto the plate.
- Decorate with carrot nose, mustard buttons, pretzel and cereal broom.
- Arrange the snap peas and pretzels to form a tree.
- Cover the ground with snowy frosted shredded wheat.
Peanut Butter Snack Ball Snowmen
- Combine the peanut butter, honey and powdered milk in a bowl and stir until a smooth, creamy mixture is formed. You should be able to handle it without it sticking to your hands.
- If it is still sticky, add a little more powdered milk and blend it well.
- Let your kids help shape the peanut butter mixture into balls.
- Roll them in coconut flakes and powdered sugar to make them look snowy, if desired.
- Stack the balls to form snowmen and decorate them as desired, or store the balls in a sealed container in the refrigerator and assemble and decorate them when you are ready to eat them.
Notes
The snack balls keep well in the fridge for a few days — make them ahead and decorate right before eating. Any nut butter works in place of peanut butter.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 snowman sandwich or 2 peanut butter snack balls
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 15 grams
- Sodium: 300 mg
- Fat: 12 grams
- Carbohydrates: 30 grams
- Fiber: 3 grams
- Protein: 8 grams
- Cholesterol: 10 mg
