Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

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Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies. The added Rudolph red-nose decorations and pretzel antlers make this basic peanut butter cookie recipe POP — bringing a fun (and yummy!) delight to any holiday occasion. With a bright red M&M nose, this Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe is easy to identify as Santa's lead reindeer. 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.

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I'll often make my own favorite peanut butter cookie recipe, but I also use the peanut butter cookie mix if I'm in a hurry.

Peanut butter Rudolph reindeer cookies are the cutest cookie you'll bake this season!

You can have Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

1. You need 1 Cup of peanut butter.

2. It’s 1 1/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar.

3. Prepare 1/2 cup of shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco.

4. Prepare 3 tablespoons of milk.

5. You need 1 tablespoon of vanilla.

6. Prepare 1 of egg.

7. Prepare 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.

8. It’s 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda.

9. You need 3/4 teaspoon of salt.

10. It’s 1 bag of pretzels.

11. Prepare 2 of tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms (we used red).

12. It’s 2 of small bags of Regular sized red M&Ms- for Rudolph's nose.

Get the kids involved for a fun way to spend a school-break day.

I think if Rudolph had started out as a delicious cookie instead of a reindeer, he would have been accepted immediately.

Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.

Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies 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. Remove from oven and immediately (and gently) press 2 pretzels into the tops of the cookies for reindeer antlers. Press 2 mini brown M&Ms in for the eyes and one red M&M for Rudolphs nose. If you run out of red M&Ms.

5. 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, pin 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 - 8 minutes, until set or just beginning to brown..

Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.

Great recipe for Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies.

Tried these cookies for Christmas, they turned out pretty good.

We didn't have the colors called for in the recipe, but they still turned out cute.

Every holiday season, I spend quite a bit of time baking with and without the kiddos.