"Snowman"

Little Miss Chubby Chops has a couple of kids's cookery books. One has a recipe for a meringue snowman. One day, just before it was time to eat, she came to me and said "Please can I have a snowman for dessert?". There wasn't time to cook the meringue (even if I did know how to do it) and the recipe used ingredients, such as marmalade, that we didn't have.

I didn't want to disappoint her so I came up with a simple biscuit snowman using the sour cream that we had in the fridge. Little Miss Chubby Chops loved it.

Today, Little Miss Chubby Chops wanted dessert after her lunch, not just any dessert, she wanted a snowman. We had some gorgeous fresh, thick cream (naturally thick not thickened) in the fridge. So I started to make the snowmen using fresh cream instead of sour cream. I gave Little Miss Chubby Chops a taste of the fresh cream. The cream had hardly touched her lips before she decided that she didn't like it and it wasn't getting anywhere near the back of her mouth, let alone her throat. So it was back to sour cream.

A Snowman

Ingredients

A digestive biscuit

A ginger nut

Three teaspoons of sour cream

Five chocolate buttons

Method

Spread the sour cream on the biscuits.

Arrange the biscuits so it looks a little like a snowman.

Use the chocolate buttons for the eyes, mouth and buttons for the snowman. 

Variations

I've successfully used full milk, greek-style yogurt instead of the sour cream. Real cream would probably be popular with most kids, just not Little Miss Chubby Chops.

As you can see from the photo, we didn't have any chocolate buttons so I used Hundreds and Thousands.