Recipe: Tasty Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies. 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. 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.

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! Every holiday season, I spend quite a bit of time baking with and without the kiddos. You can cook Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

1. It's 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. 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. You need 2 of tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms (we used red).
12. You need 2 of small bags of Regular sized red M&Ms- for Rudolph's nose.

These Peanut Butter Thumbprint Rudolph Cookies are so simple and can be made in no time at all. With a few ingredients from your pantry, M&M's, and Pretzels, you can have. These Rudolph the reindeer peanut butter cookies are super cute and fun of the holidays! In fact, we call them Rudolph and Friends because all the different colored candy noses are his friends.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies step by step

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..

You don't want to waste any of the colored candies so why not use them for the rest of his reindeer friends? Chewy peanut butter cookies from scratch recipe! Very good cookies with just a little tweaking. These Peanut Butter Cookies have the most amazing melt-in-your-mouth texture, with crisp edges and a creamy, rich peanut butter middle. It's my favorite peanut butter cookie!