Reindeer Cookies are the perfect cookies for Santa or for all your little elves. Everyone loves these. Peanut Butter and Chocolate goodness!
CUTE CHRISTMAS REINDEER COOKIES
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Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 ¼ cup light brown sugar packed
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp table salt
- mini pretzel twists plain or chocolate covered
- M & M's
- chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- Spray baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
- In acmixing bowl, combine shortening, brown sugar, peanut butter, milk and vanilla. Beat at medium speed until smooth and well-blended.
- Add in egg and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour with baking soda and salt. Using a fork, stir well.
- Slowly begin adding the flour mixture to the peanut butter mixture. Only adding a little at a time as you mix it to make sure flour doesn't fly everywhere. Don't overmix, just stir until combined.
- Form dough into 1-inch balls and place on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Then, to make the reindeer face, pinch the bottom half of the cookie. Then smush it down a bit with your hand.
- Bake cookies (one sheet at a time) for about 8 minutes.
- While the cookies are baking, start getting all your embellishments organized. As soon as the cookies come out, you are going to be working kinda fast.
- Once cookies are finished, while still warm, start adding the noses. Then add the eyes (chocolate chips) fairly close to the nose. Then add the antlers (pretzels). This part can be just a bit tricky because those antlers are heavy. So it's important that you don't put them too far to the edge of the cookie. They need to be solidly on the cookie, near the eyes, and gently apply a bit of pressure to make sure they stay in place.
- Allow cookies to finish cooling.
I made some like these a few weeks ago. I found it worked better to add the nose, eyes, and antlers before they were baked. I didn't use chocolate pretzels, just plain. They are really cute and the kids loved them.
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These are SO adorable! My kids at school would love them. 🙂
These are so cute! I'm actually making these for my daughter's holiday party at school!
I love them and that is a great Christmas gift you could ever give.
These are super cute cookies. I am sure kids as well as adults would enjoy these cookies.
Do you think you can make these smaller with mini m&m's, mini flips and less dough? I am creating little stocking stuffers for co-workers and have small cylinder tins about 2-3 inches tall and not too wide.
Anonymous- I don't see why not. You will have to adjust your cooking time a bit. Maybe try out a couple at first just to make sure you got the timing right. 🙂
I make these using cut off cookies~sugar cookies with a green nose, peanutbutter cookies with a red nose. So easy this way & everyone loves them & wants to know the secret to making them. I've been making these for 20 yrs.
If I didnt want to use peanut butter what would I have to adjust to make up for it and can I use butter instead of shortening?
Hi Rachael! I don't have the answer to your questions - I'm sorry. This is the only way I have ever made them.
I love these cookies. I volunteer at a school and bring treat every week, which is allowed. What is not allowed is ANY nut product. Any suggestions of what I can use instead of peanut butter? Thank you.
Hmmm...maybe a cinnamon cookie or chocolate?
Are you advertising for Walmart? Their products are in your cookies?
Nope. It's just what I use sometimes 🙂
What the heck? There's Kroger, Walmart brands in addition to name brands. What difference does any of that make for this adorable recipe?
These look so adorable. I've never made reindeer cookies putting the pieces on after they are baked so I want to try this method. I want to use the chocolate covered pretzels like you did. My kids are going to love these. I think we might need to make more than one batch!
I used this recipe for a cookie exchange but placed whole large pretzels on baking sheet and put the cookies dough on the lower part of the pretzel then baked them. I used candy eyes as well. Turned out really cute.
Can you freeze these cookies?