Article: At Bittersweet, Snowmen Are Kids' Stuff

It wasn't Frosty the Snowman.

No.

With a thick thatch of dark brown hair, a heavy gold-ball necklace and portly stomach, it was definitely Elvis. At least that's what Julia Leventhal, age 6, thought as she put more flourishes on her Christmas cookie.

"I always think less is more, but not these girls," said Judy Contino, who recently hosted a lesson on cookie baking and decorating for some young friends of hers. She taught them how to turn parchment paper into decorating tubes and to make scarves and hair from frosting and top hats from mini peanut butter cups.

From rows of plump but plain sugar cookies, she and her students created charming snowmen.

Contino is the owner of, and ...

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