Why This Recipe:

In many areas of our country winter means snow. Whatever the weather brings in your city, this recipe lends itself to imaginative play and a tasty treat.

Ingredients:

• Enough marshmallows to allow 3 per person
• Large tube(s) of white icing
• Small tube(s) of black icing
• Strips of fruit leather type candy
• Paper plates
• Confectioner's sugar
• Strainer or sifter
• Assorted other decorations as you wish

Directions:

1. Work over a paper plate. Have the children stack three marshmallows on top of each other with a dab of icing between each marshmallow.
    
2. Lay the "snow person" down on the plate to decorate the face with small icing tubes.
    
3. Tie a scarf around the neck, using a strip of fruit leather.
    
4. Attach the snow person to the paper plate with another dab of icing.
    
5. Be as imaginative as you wish here, creating a winter scene.
    
6. Put confectioners sugar in a strainer or sifter, and allow it to snow on each scene.
    
7. Take a picture, make a bracha, and eat!