Recipe: Perfect Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies. These rudolph peanut butter cookies are super easy to make and a fantastic holiday cookie recipe to make everyone happy and full of holiday cheer. Watch Video: Rudolph & Friends: Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies: So in the spirit of eating, calorie hoarding and more cookies, we're adding to the pile. 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.

In fact, we call them Rudolph and Friends because all the different colored candy noses are his friends. You don't want to waste any of the colored candies so why not use them for the rest of his reindeer friends? These Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies are a crowd favorite during the holidays! You can cook Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

1. It's 1 Cup of peanut butter.
2. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco.
4. It's 3 tablespoons of milk.
5. It's 1 tablespoon of vanilla.
6. It's 1 of egg.
7. It's 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.
8. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
9. You need 3/4 teaspoon of salt.
10. You need 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.

Make a batch or two of these adorable peanut butter reindeer cookies to A friend of mine sent me this recipe for peanut butter reindeer cookies and it was exactly what I was looking for! Chewy peanut butter cookies from scratch recipe! These Peanut Butter M&M Cookies have a soft peanut butter cookie dough studded with creamy Peanut Butter M&M's. It's the perfect cookie recipe for the peanut butter lover!

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 Rudolph's 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..

If you're not familiar with a Peanut Butter M&M, it's like Reese's Pieces but even bigger and creamier. Healthy and vegan peanut butter cookies with a secret ingredient: applesauce! There are hundreds of reviews on the recipe. The cookies are so deliciously light, soft, chewy, and better than any other peanut butter cookie—vegan or not—that I've ever tried. Thick, soft, chunky peanut butter cookies adapted from Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook.