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Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Adorable peanut butter cookies that look like reindeer and even Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Author: Kami | NoBiggie.net
Ingredients
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 bag of Flipz chocolate-covered pretzels
  • 2 tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms
  • 2 small bags of Regular-sized red M&Ms - for the Rudolph Nose
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Combine brown sugar, peanut butter, shortening, milk, and vanilla in your mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed until well blended. Add egg; beat just blended.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended together.

  4. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out 1-inch balls of cookie dough and place on a parchment lined baking pan. To make reindeer-shaped cookies, pinch the bottom of the cookie dough ball slightly to form a pointy triangle shape, then gently flatten with the palm of your hand. Space cookies about 2 inches apart on your baking sheet and bake for 7 to 8 minutes, until set or just beginning to brown.

  5. Remove from oven and immediately (and gently) press two chocolate covered pretzels into the tops of the cookies for reindeer antlers. Press two mini brown M&Ms in for the eyes and one red M&M for the Rudolph nose. If you run out of red M&M's for the noses, you could use brown and green M&M's too.
  6. Allow to cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire rack or paper towel to cool completely.
  7. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.