Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies. Delicious Peanut Butter Cookies shaped like Rudolph and all his friends! We made a fun video to go along with these cute peanut butter Rudolph cookies. If you're planning to attend a Christmas Cookie Exchange this year, these cookies would be the cutest cookies on the table, not to mention delicious!

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. We used m&m peanut candies for the noses and saved the big red ones for Rudolph noses. You can have Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Prepare 1 Cup of peanut butter.
It's 1 1/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar.
Prepare 1/2 cup of shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco.
Prepare 3 tablespoons of milk.
You need 1 tablespoon of vanilla.
You need 1 of egg.
It's 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.
You need 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
You need 3/4 teaspoon of salt.
Prepare 1 bag of pretzels.
Prepare 2 of tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms (we used red).
You need 2 of small bags of Regular sized red M&Ms- for Rudolph's nose.

The rest of the colors were used for the rest of this reindeer friends. Some recipes use red gummy candies for the reindeer noses, but we find that the peanut m&m's work best because the flavor goes well with the peanut butter 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. 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.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies step by step

Preheat oven to 375° F..
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"..
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended together..
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 Rudolph's nose. If you run out of red M&Ms.
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..

Every holiday season, I spend quite a bit of time baking with and without the kiddos. I like a more traditional cookie like the Traditional Spritz Cookie I shared with you last week. The kiddos love just about any cookie but when we do fun holiday treats like these Rudolph Cookies, they are always quick to gobble them right up. Great recipe for Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies. Tried these cookies for Christmas, they turned out pretty good.