Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
Adorable Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies usher in the holiday cheer. Slightly crunchy on the outside with a soft and nutty interior. Leave these out for Santa, and you’ll have a permanent spot on the nice list.
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter
- ½ cup granulated sugar + more for rolling
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 15 red and/or brown M&Ms
- 30 mini pretzels
- 30 candy eyeballs, (Made by Wilton)
- A small amount of icing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Combine flour, soda, and slat in a small mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a larger bowl, cream peanut butter, butter, and sugar together until smooth.
- Beat in egg and vanilla, until smooth.
- Stir in flour mixture until combined.
- Scoop 1 ½ Tablespoonsized balls and roll into granulated sugar
- Flatten, and roll into oblong shapes, pinching a bit in the middle. It should be shaped a
- little like a nutter butter cookie.
- Place on a cookie sheet with about 2 inches between each.
- Bake for 10 minutes and remove from oven to cool completely.
- When cool, pipe or spread a bit of icing onto a pretzel and stick onto on end of a cookie.
- Repeat with another pretzel, attaching each to emulate deer antlers.
- Add a bit of icing to the backs of candy eyeballs and stick onto cookies about halfway
- down cookies.
- Repeat with M&Ms, placing them down further for the nose
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Notes
- The candy eyes are usually found in the baking or party aisle at Walmart, or at craft stores like Michael's.
- Melted chocolate or white chips are a great replacement if you don’t have icing! They stick to the candy and pretzels to the cookie really firmly.
- If you have a thinner icing like cookie icing, your antlers may want to fall off until it dries a bit, but just be patient and let them set up.
- Use creamy, no-stir peanut butter for the best results.
- If using natural peanut butter, be sure to stir it thoroughly before using it. Your cookies might be oilier if using natural peanut butter.
- If you want the cookies to look neater, spread your icing directly on the pretzel instead of the cookie. Adhering it this way means you won’t see as much icing through the pretzel twists.
- Don’t skip rolling the cookie dough in sugar before shaping. This makes them less sticky, so they’re easy to shape. It also gives a light crunch to the outer layer of the cookie.
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