Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Cookies

GrandmaG's Note:

Very CUTE little cookies that will bring a smile to the little ones faces! Great little cookies to send to school on "Christmas Party" day! You will be the hit of the classroom! (hint: you can use icing bag with piping tip, and a frosting that dries hard to stick on the eyes and nose, I use a stiff buttercream frosting colored the color of the eyes and nose, it works faster for me than the melted chocolate)

• Total Time: 33 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 32 cookies

• 4 ounces chocolate-flavored candy coating
• 96 thin pretzel sticks
• 1 (16 ounce) package Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
• 64 miniature M&M baking bits (blue, green, or brown)
• 32 cinnamon red cinnamon candies or 32 red miniature M&M baking bits

Directions:

1. Microwave the chocolate in a small glass dish on high for 3 minutes, stirring once.
2. For each Rudolph dip 2 pretzel sticks in chocolate and stick to top of each sandwich cookie, forming large antlers.
3. Break one pretzel in half, dip in chocolate and place pretzel half next to longer pretzel sticks, forming antlers.
4. Dip one side of blue, green, or brown mini M&M's in melted candy coating and place, coated side down, on cookies for the eyes.
5. Dip one side of the cinnamon red hot, or red M&M in candy coating, and place on cookies, coated side down, for the nose.

Reviews

[kellychris]

This is a very cute idea! I agree with Chef #738454 that this is a 2 person job,though. My daughter and I used store bought chocolate dipped pretzels for the antlers and I mixed white and regular chocolate to dip the cookies in. I made these to accompany Santa Cookies. My niece and nephew will adore them. Thanks!!

[Chef #738454]

I dipped my in chocolate candy coating. That makes it a 2 person job, though, because it is VERY messy. I dipped the top, dipped the bottom and then did a quick scrape off the back of the cookie (rubber spatula) and a quick scrape around the edges and laid it out on wax paper. My daughter quickly laid on the eyes, nose and pretzel antlers!

[shellibaby0912]

Awesome, easy, tasty cookies-I made these last night for my kids' daycare party and they were so crafty and easy to do. I opened the Nutter Butters carefully (I didn't break any so it's not hard to do)dipped the tips of the pretzels in white icing for adhesive (I used tubed icing already prepared), put the cookie back together and used brown mini M&M's for eyes and Red Hots for noses, securing them with small dab of icing. They turned out really cute! Thanks for a great idea!