These Reindeer Cookies are not only adorable, but EASY to make. Impress people by bringing them to your next holiday/Christmas party!
Here we go, December! The month of crazy. I intend to simplify this month every single year, but it is SO. HARD. I’m learning that it’s impossible to simplify completely, but it IS possible to simplify in little ways, like by making party food easy. These adorable Reindeer Cookies will make people think you slaved over them all day when they really only require 30 minutes of your precious holiday time. I don’t always recommend refrigerated dough and store-bought frosting, but this month? Highly recommended.
If you have spare time on your hands, these Sugar Cookies are also super easy and delicious and this Chocolate Frosting is to die for!
Wishing peace and everything good for YOU this holiday season! Enjoy the cookies and your early-December Friday!
Take a peek at some of my other Christmas cookie creations! Chocolate Rolo Thumbprint Cookies, Snowball Cookies and Thumbprint Shortbread Cookies.
Reindeer Cookies
Ingredients
- 12 round sugar cookies baked and cooled. Buy refrigerated or try this easy homemade version.
- Batch chocolate frosting buy premade or try this easy homemade version
- 12 Nutter Butter cookies
- 24 tiny twists pretzels
- extra frosting for piping
- 24 brown mini M&M's
- 12 red peanut M&M's
Instructions
- Generously spread frosting over each cookie. Place Nutter Butters onto lower center of frosted cookie and press down gently. Add the pretzel “antlers” and press down gently.
- Pipe frosting onto Nutter Butters for eyes eyes, noses and smiles. Press the brown M&M’s into the eyes and the red ones into the noses. Serve and enjoy!
Regular frosting won’t stick well enough. Try this for gluing M&Ms. Maybe even pretzel antlers. I would cut the recipe down to 1/3. 11.5 ounces of powdered sugar. Two egg whites. And whatever 1/3 of 1 tsp. is. 🙂
2 lbs. powdered sugar
6 egg whites
1 tsp. cream of tartar
Beat with electric mixer – carefully!