easy reindeer cookies

These Easy Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies are decorated with pretzels, candy eyes, and M&amp;Ms. Kids and adults will love these delicious, cute, and fun Christmas cookies! 

Easy Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies (Kid-Friendly!)

salted butter, softened

egg,

vanilla

peanut butter (not natural)

tbsp + 2 tsp granulated sugar

brown sugar

+ 2 tbsp self-rising flour

itty bitty mini pretzels

candy eyes

M&Ms

white chocolate chips, melted

Start by placing your softened butter in a large mixing bowl and cream together with the creamy peanut butter using an electric hand mixer.

Add in brown sugar and sugar and mix together until creamy. Add room temperature eggs and vanilla and mix until just combined.

Next, begin adding in your flour 1/2 cup at a time until fully incorporated and your cookie dough has formed.

Cover cookie dough with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours or overnight to chill.

Remove chilled cookie dough from refrigerator and preheat oven to 350.

Using a small cookie scoop like this one form cookie dough balls. Next, roll each ball until smooth and pinch the sides to form an hourglass shape. Press down slightly on the top of each cookie with the palm of your hand and place evenly spaced apart on a large cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes until the bottoms are lightly golden brown. Times may vary and require less or more time depending on your oven.

Once fully baked, remove from the oven and let cool on the pan for 5 minutes, before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool for 10 minutes.

To decorate the cookies, melt 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips in the microwave and gather 40 mini itty bitty pretzels. Dip the bottom back side of each pretzel and adhere two of them to the tops of each cookie.

Next, place the remaining white chocolate chips in a small Ziploc bag, snip a small opening in the corner with a pair of scissors, and place three small dots of white chocolate on each cookie to adhere the eyes and nose.

Gently place the candy eyes and brown or red M&amp;Ms on each cookie and let the white chocolate firm up for 15 minutes before serving.

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CRAZY cute, these easy reindeer cookies are guaranteed to bring joy to everyone you love this Christmas!

Easy Reindeer Cookies - Printable Recipe

Electric Stand Mixer

Rolling Pin

6cm Round Cookie Cutter

1cm Circle Cutter *

Baking Tray

x Small Bowls

x Disposable Piping Bags

(1/2 Cup + 1/8 Cup) Unsalted Butter, room temperature

(1/2 Cup) Icing/Confectioners Sugar

Egg Yolk

tsp Vanilla Extract

Salt

(1 + 2/3 Cup) Plain/All Purpose Flour

(1/2 Cup + 2 tbsp) Strawberry Jam

(2.6 oz) Milk Chocolate

Place the butter, sugar, yolk, vanilla and salt...

Place the butter, sugar, yolk, vanilla and salt into the stand mixer and beat until light and fluffy.

Add the flour and fold through until it...

Add the flour and fold through until it becomes a soft dough. Take out the bowl and knead together briefly.

Roll the dough between 2 sheets of baking...

Roll the dough between 2 sheets of baking paper to 6mm thick, then cut out circles using a cookie cutter.

Cut a smaller circle (off centre) for the...

Cut a smaller circle (off centre) for the noses on half of them. Repeat until all the dough is used up.

Place on a lined baking tray and chill...

Place on a lined baking tray and chill for 30 mins. Preheat your oven to 180ºC/Fan 170ºC/356ºF.

Space the cookies out on a lined baking...

Space the cookies out on a lined baking tray and bake for 11-13 mins until golden around the edges.  (Bake in batches if you need to.)

Allow to firm on the tray for a...

Allow to firm on the tray for a minute or two then transfer to a rack to completely cool.

Mix the jam in a small bowl to...

Mix the jam in a small bowl to soften it then pour into a piping bag.

Snip the end and pipe jam circles onto...

Snip the end and pipe jam circles onto each of the biscuits without nose holes. (Don't add too much and don't go too close to the edge.)

Carefully push the cookies with the nose holes...

Carefully push the cookies with the nose holes on top. You don't want it squishing out the sides but you do want a little rounded red nose to pop through the holes.

Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the...

Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave in 10 second blasts. When two thirds melted, stir until completely melted. Pour in a piping bag and snip the end then pipe eyes above each red nose.

Then pipe the main lines for each antler.

Finally, pipe the details on for each antler....

Finally, pipe the details on for each antler. (I found it easiest to pipe a 'downward pointing arrow each time.)

Allow to set on a rack then store...

Allow to set on a rack then store in a metal tin at room temperature and consume within 4-5 days.

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