Today I’m bringing you another kid friendly recipe Snowman Soup, which is sure to please! I don’t know any child who doesn’t love hot chocolate, but very few who have gotten to make their own hot chocolate mix. This is a recipe from my first grade teacher, Mrs. Menotti. We made it as a class when I was six years old and then everyone got to bring a sampling of mix and the recipe home. I was so thrilled when Mama then went out and got the ingredients for us to make, too!
As a child, we used to mix up a batch of this at the start of each winter and it would last the entire season. I’m letting my kids mix it up and then packaging it into little kits to give as “snowman soup”, another great gift idea for classmates, friends, family, or anyone else your children would like to offer a special thank you to!
Ingredients You will need for Snowman soup:
- Instant powdered milk
- Powdered coffee creamer
- Nestle’s Quick (Although I would have gladly gotten a generic chocolate milk powder if they would have had one!)
- Powdered sugar. As always, exact quantities are at the end of this tutorial!
Now we’re just going to pour all ingredients into a large bowl !
This beautiful young lady pours in the powdered milk…
Adding in the powdered coffee creamer
Add the Nesquick and confectioners sugar.
Mix it all up!
When you are done it will look like this! This one batch made over 45 servings!
Now, to make your snowman soup, I measured out a heaping 1/3 cup of mix into a sandwich zipper seal bag.
I then folded the bag over and taped it and added ten marshmallows, two kisses, and a small candy cane.
Next, I packaged it in one of those clear party treat bags and folded the top over. Voila! Snowman soup, ready to give! And if you are crafty you can add the poem below!
Ingredients
- 1 Box Instant powdered milk The size that makes 8 quarts
- 1 – 6 ounce jar powdered coffee creamer
- 1 – 2 pound box Nestle’s Quik
- 1 pound powdered sugar
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in large container. Store in sealed container until ready to use.
- To make hot cocoa, fill mug 1/3 full with mix and add hot water, stir.
Nutrition
Snowman Soup
This is a popular and very thoughtful gift. If you’d rather not make homemade hot cocoa mix, the idea works just as well with an individual packet of store bought hot cocoa mix!
To make Snowman Soup, place 1/3 Cup mix into sealed bag (or an envelope of store bought mix) and package with a small candy cane, ten miniature marshmallows, two chocolate kisses, and tag with instructions and poem. There are several poems available online but this is my favorite and printer ready tags (with poem) are available here!
(This one recipe made over 45 servings!)
Other Gift Mixes:
oooh! This was the recipe I was looking for, after losing my copy!
This looks like such a cute item to give my nieces and nephews attached to the top of their gifts.
The pictures of the kids are very cute!
simply awesome!!
Thanks Christy, I love your blog! Connor loves the pictures! He misses his Katy! We’re making these for Christian’s class.
Such a cute name for it!
This is so cute! I really wish my kids were little and I was a room mom again! My daughter doesnt like it so much when I come up there now that shes a sophmore! LOL! I’m gonna make this anyway!!
This is the exact recipe that I use each year except I kick it up a notch…I add 1 package instant chocolate pudding to the mix. For my daughter’s fall wedding a couple of years ago we did single servings of this recipe and substituted flavored coffee creamers. We chose carmel vanilla, but I have also done hazelnut. They were both heavenly!