Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
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This Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe is fun to make and delicious to eat. Use pretzels, mini chocolate chips and M&Ms to create your own Rudolph cookies!

Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
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Ask any kid who their favorite reindeer is and chances are that they will answer “Rudolph!” Well, that’s a great choice and is an especially fun one for baking.
With a bright red M&M nose, this Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe is easy to identify as Santa’s lead reindeer.

Preparing Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie for Oven
The homemade peanut butter cookie recipe we use for these Rudolph cookies is easy to whip together.
But, if you just want to do the fun part of decorating with your kids, you could start with a refrigerated cookie dough instead.
Even little tots are able to help by placing the chocolate chip eyes and M&M noses in place to make these adorable reindeer cookies!

If you plan to make a lot of Rudolph Christmas cookies, it’s helpful to get a bag of ALL red M&Ms (which you can get in bulk on Amazon) or you can use a bag of holiday M&Ms and pick out the half that are red instead of green.

Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Ingredients
Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Egg
1 1/3 cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
48 Red M&M’s
96 Mini Chocolate Chips

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Red M&M’S Bulk Candy Bag
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Mini Twist Pretzels
Mini Twist Pretzels
How to Make Rudolph Cookies
Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.Preheat oven to 350.
Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.

Mixing Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated.
Roll into 1/2-3/4″ balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart.
Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie.

Preparing Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie for Oven
Bake 12-14 minutes.
Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
If the antlers won’t stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.

Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies
For some extra fun, team up these cookies with our with our with our Reindeer Hot Chocolate! Packaging the two together would make a really fun Christmas gift.

Reindeer Hot Chocolate Gift Idea
For lots more fun reindeer themed fun, check out these tips for throwing the ultimate reindeer party!
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Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies

Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies
This Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe is fun to make and delicious to eat. Use pretzels, mini chocolate chips and M&Ms to create your own Rudloph cookies!
Prep Time 30 minutes Cook Time 14 minutes Additional Time 10 minutes Total Time 54 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 1 1/3 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
- Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated.
- Roll into 1/2-3/4″ balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart.
- Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie.
- Bake 12-14 minutes.
- Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
- Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
- Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
- If the antlers won’t stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
48
Serving Size:
1 Cookie
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 1065Total Fat: 61gSaturated Fat: 35gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 22gCholesterol: 12mgSodium: 290mgCarbohydrates: 146gFiber: 12gSugar: 114gProtein: 11g
Nutrition is automatically calculated and likely not accurate.
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