Easy Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies
Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies – chocolate covered Nutter Butter cookies, topped with pretzel twists and candy features for a sweet treat that you will want to make for Christmas!
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These Nutter Butter reindeer cookies are absolutely darling and perfect for Christmas. We love creating fun food to help celebrate the holidays!
These cute treats are so much fun to make with the kids during the Christmas season. Little hands can easily add a little frosting and reindeer features to these Christmas reindeer cookies.
With pretzels twist antlers, candy eyes and a red M&M nose, they make the cutest cookie for the holidays. These adorable reindeer cookies are the perfect holiday treat to take to your next Christmas party!
What’s a Nutter Butter?
- If you haven’t tried these delicious peanut butter sandwich cookies yet, you should!
- They are a peanut butter cookie, filled with a peanut butter creme.
- Nutter butters can be round and chocolate fudge coated like these or in a classic peanut shape without the chocolate coating!
- These delicious peanut butter cookies are great for creating easy recipes this holiday season.
- I try to keep a package of nutter butter cookies in the pantry so that I can quickly make these easy reindeer cookies for holiday parties.
WHAT MAKES THESE THE BEST REINDEER COOKIES?
- These easy cookies only require a few ingredients from the grocery store.
- No fancy cookie cutters or tools are needed.
- These cute reindeer cookies are so easy to make that the kids will love them!
- Creating peanut butter reindeer cookies is a fun way to get into the holiday spirit.
How to make this reindeer cookie recipe:
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Ingredients:
- 6 Fudge Covered Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips, for melting
- Pretzel twists, broken in half
- Red M&Ms
- Candy eyes
Tip: regular nutter butter cookies work just as well as the fudge covered ones! Try experimenting with different store-bought cookies.
Directions:
1. Open the box of cookies and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet.
2. In a microwave safe bowl, heat the chocolate chips at 15 second intervals, stirring in between, until the chocolate is completely melted.
3. Use the chocolate to stick the reindeer features into place on the nutter butter cookie.
4. Place a dab of chocolate at the bottom of each cookie to attach a red M&M nose and candy eyeballs.
5. Use two drops of chocolate at the top of the cookie to attach the pretzel antlers.
Tip: be sure to use a generous amount of melted chocolate and really press the features into the cookie so that they stick.
6. Put the baking sheet in the fridge for 30 minutes to allow the chocolate to harden before serving.
TIPS FOR MAKING THESE REINDEER COOKIES:
- Lay the chocolate covered treat on a cookie tray for easy moving and transporting before serving.
- These cookies are best served and stored on a flat surface as they tend to break when stored in a bag or bowl.
- Regular nutter butter cookies can be dipped in melted milk chocolate.
- Store these yummy treats in a large freezer bag or airtight container for up to a week at room temperature. They can also be stored in the freezer for up to three months.
More Cookie Tips:
- Use red hots or any other red candy for the red noses instead of m&ms.
- Mini pretzels, pretzel sticks or pretzel rods could be used for antlers.
- Use white candy melts, chocolate candy melts or a dot of frosting to stick features to the cookies.
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Some of my kitchen essentials:
- I love using this non-stick bakeware for all of my baking.
- These silicone mitts are perfect for grasping hot pans and baking dishes.
- This Henckel Knife is my favorite for slicing and dicing in the kitchen.
- These parchment paper bags are perfect for packaging and these large Rubbermaid food storage containers are great for storing baking in the freezer.
This would make a cute idea for kids to create for holiday festivities. Who doesn’t love an adorable cookie reindeer with pretzel antlers?!
More fun reindeer treats:
- Reindeer Graham Cracker Cookies
- Wagon Wheel Reindeer
- Reindeer Cinnamon Rolls
- Wafer Reindeer Cookies
- Reindeer Sugar Cookies
- Reese’s Reindeer Treats
- Reindeer Chocolate Bark
- Reindeer Rice Krispie Treats
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Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies
Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies - chocolate covered Nutter Butter cookies, topped with pretzel twists and candy features for a sweet treat that you will want to make for Christmas!
Ingredients
- 6 Fudge Covered Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
- ¼ cup chocolate chips, for melting
- Pretzel twists, broken in half
- Red M&Ms
- Candy eyes
Instructions
1. Open the box of Nutter Butters and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet.
2. In a microwave safe bowl, heat the chocolate chips at 15 second intervals, stirring between, until completely melted.
3. Use the chocolate to “glue” the reindeer features into place on the peanut butter cookie.
4. Place a dab of chocolate towards the bottom for the nose, two small dabs for eyes and two dabs of chocolate on either side at the top to affix the pretzels, forming antlers.
5. Put the baking sheet in the fridge for 30 minutes to allow the chocolate to harden before serving.
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