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Fit for Santa’s team: Rudolph loves cookies

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Rudolph Cookies

With Christmas only days away, we’re squeezing in every last ounce of holiday fun, food and crafty goodness that we can before Santa hits the slopes and heads to town (presuming that his sled does a bit of skiing action before taking to the air). And what better way to welcome him to our humble abode than with yummy cookies that are the spitting image of his trusty team?

Beany loves looking at their happy little faces, and I think the kiddos who are a bit older would get a kick out of making the reindeer themselves by pressing the pretzels and M&Ms into the warm cookies. Sometimes those little hands can be a big help. 

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Reindeer Cookies

• cookie dough (I used our favorite ginger spice cookie recipe, but any cookie will do.)
• chocolate-covered pretzels
• chocolate chips
• red M&Ms

Form dough into rounded tablespoons, and place on a baking sheet. Press the dough gently to flatten it slightly, and pinch the bottom end of each ball of dough so it comes to a slight point. Bake cookies according to recipe’s instructions.

Remove cookies from the oven. While they’re still warm (and before they’ve completely set), gently press two chocolate chips into the dough for the eyes, one red M&M for the nose and two chocolate-covered pretzels for the antlers.

Place cookies on a wire rack to cool completely.

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How’s your holiday break shaping up? Are you baking up a storm? Decking the halls? Wishing for snow? Do tell!

XO,
Katrina

Comments

  3. Reindeer cookies for the win! I have to remember this one when I have little ones around for holidays. 🙂
    So my burning question… Did you find a pack of all read M&Ms? If not, did you eat all the other colours all by yourself? 😀

    • Ha! Good question. I actually bought a pack of red and green Christmas M&Ms, so the extras weren’t too plentiful. But those green guys were taken care of quickly. 😉

  4. I made these last year for my daughter’s 2nd birthday party that was a “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer” theme. They were a huge hit. I used them as party favors. We even used some of the ‘M&M’s with the ‘m’s showing to look like eyelashes, as the primary focus was ‘Clarice’. My daughter’s name is also Clairisse, so the ‘Clarice’ character was featured.

  6. These are great – i love them! I included them on my weekly ‘today I’m inspired by…’ post on my blog. Hope that’s ok? I credited all the work as yours!
    Claire.x

  8. hello! I’ll be making these with my daughter for a cookie exchange. About how many does this recipe yield?

    • How fun! I usually get about 45 cookies from the ginger spice recipe linked to in this post. Hope that helps! Happy holidays! 🙂

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  3. […] 13. Rudolph Loves Cookies These Rudolph cookies are super cute, and people will think you are so clever that they will have no idea just how easy these are to put together. It starts off with cookie dough of your choice, and in this case they have used ginger spice. These include chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate chips, and red M&M’s. The chocolate pretzels make up the ears, the chocolate chips are the eyes, and the red M&M candies make up his nose. These are so cute, but they also taste great because you’re getting the saltiness from the pretzel, the crunchiness from the M&M candy, and the chocolateness from the chocolate chips. […]