We transformed store-bought cookies into a delightful easy treat made in minutes using just a few ingredients to make reindeer, penguins and you may remember a few years back our Santa Nutter Butter Hats.
We took the easy way out and used candy melts and some easily found cinnamon red hots, M&M's, and some pretzels for the antlers to make this project fun and super easy for even the kids.
You won't even need any fancy tools to create these little treats that even the young at heart will find creatively delicious.
The eyes can be found at any local party store and sometimes even at the local dollar stores.
Check out the step-by-step instructions that make these reindeer and penguins get you into the Christmas holiday spirit.
If you're not a baker or like to make fun treats, these will be your new favorite cookies for the holidays.
Simple to decorate for a holiday theme using store-bought nutter butter cookies and turned into Reindeer and Penguins, delicious and adorable!
Step By Step Penguin or Reindeer Nutter Butters
- lay them out on wax paper
- frost or dip each end in candy melts (canned frosting melted works also)
- decorate with pretzels for the ears or candies depending on which one you're making
- let dry completely
Some Fun Tips and Suggestions
- decorate with a pastry tube and pastry bag if you prefer over candy eyes
- add small candy eyes premade or mini chocolate chips
- use candy-coated chocolates in orange for penguin feet or brown
- dip in white chocolate instead of chocolate or white frosting
- if using frosting microwave for 10 seconds until slightly melted and then dip or brush it on with a pastry brush then quickly add the decorating ingredients
- cookies need to dry before moving to store into a covered plastic container
- the cookies will stay fresh for up to two weeks and can be made ahead of time
Ingredients You Will Need to Make Penguins or Reindeer
- white and chocolate candy melts(or use melted canned frosting)
- cinnamon red hots round candy
- candy eyes
- pretzel twists
- orange M&M's
- decorative candy sequins in orange
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Holiday No Bake Treats
Whether you love baking cookies from scratch or making a simple semi homemade creative treat, these will delight the kids and young at heart.
These nutter butter cookie treats are a fun family project and look great as a table centerpiece decoration on the holiday table.
We just love watching these delicious cookies fly off the plates with a gleam in the childrens eyes and they are so easy to make with just a few easy to find ingredients.
Yield: 18
Penguin or Reindeer Nutter Butter Cookies
Prep time: 10 MinInactive time: 15 MinTotal time: 25 Min
Simple to decorate for a holiday theme using store-bought nutter butter cookies and turned into Reindeer and Penguins, Delicious and adorable!
Ingredients
- Reindeer/Rudolph Ingredients:
- 1 package of Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookies
- 1 cup of white melting wafers
- 1 cup of milk chocolate-flavored melting wafers
- 1 bag of mini pretzel twists
- candy eyeballs (found in a party craft store)
- candy-coated chocolate (m&m's or use cinnamon red hots for the nose
- Penguin Ingredients:
- 1 package of nutter butter
- white candy melts
- candy eyes
- orange m&m's for feet cut in half
- orange round decorative sequins
- Santa Nutter Butter Cookie Instructions CLICK HERE
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in either one of both (do one at a time so it stays liquified in the microwave in 30-second intervals (stirring every 10 seconds).
- Note: Usually the bag of candy melts has its instructions just do not overheat the chocolate it will seize up.
- If you have to keep reheating the chocolate in the microwave add a little shortening this will loosen it up for easier flow and dipping or if it gets too thick and seizes up.
- Reindeer/Rudolph Nutter Butter Directions:
- Lay two pretzels down on a sheet of wax paper.
- Dip the front of the cookie in melted chocolate.
- Brush a little on the back.
- Set the cookie down on the brushed side on top of the ears (they should be at the top a little slanted outward).
- Place the nose at the bottom and the eyes at the top.
- It's ok if the pretzel antlers move a bit they will dry and look fine.
- Let dry completely.
- Penguin Nutter Butter:
- Lay down wax paper first.
- Melt the chocolate candy melts in the microwave same at above instructions.
- Dip the nutter butter front only in chocolate.
- Lay that down on the wax paper.
- Add a whole white candy melt in the center of the penguin.
- Add the eyes at the top and the sequin nose in the middle.
- Cut an orange M&M in half for the feet and add them to the bottom slanted sideways.
- Allow drying completely before storing in an airtight plastic-covered container.
- These will stay fresh in the container up to two weeks and can be made ahead of time.
Notes
Some Fun Tips and Suggestions
- decorate with a pastry tube and pastry bag if you prefer over candy eyes
- add small candy eyes premade or mini chocolate chips
- use candy-coated chocolates in orange for penguin feet or brown
- dip in white chocolate instead of dark chocolate or white frosting
- if using frosting microwave for 10 seconds until slightly melted and then dip or brush it on with a pastry brush then quickly add the decorating ingredients
- cookies need to dry before moving to store into a covered plastic container
- the cookies will stay fresh for up to two weeks and can be made ahead of time
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