Fun Cookies to make for Christmas!
If you are looking for a creative and cute Christmas Cookie Recipe, don’t miss our Reindeer Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies! These homemade peanut butter cookies with a few added embellishments will delight everyone who sees them! They are perfect for parties and Christmas Cookie Exchanges. My son made some for Santa one year too!
These easy Peanut Butter cookies can magically be turned into Reindeer! They are so easy and fun, you’ll want to make them a few times!
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 Egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar for rolling
Red peanut M&M’s
Small candy eyes
Pretzel twists
Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 350° and line a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat your softened butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar together until creamy.
3. Mix in your egg, milk, and vanilla extract
4. In a separate mixing bowl, add your flour, baking soda and salt and mix
5. Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and mix until you have a thick dough.
6. Form your dough into small balls, roll into your sugar, and place onto your baking sheet
7. Bake for 10 minutes and let cool.
8. Press a red M&M’s onto the bottom center of each cookie.
9. Dab a little frosting onto the back of two candy eyes and stick them above the red M&M’s nose.
10. Break a pretzel in half, dab the ends in frosting and stick into the top of your cookies.
11. Enjoy!
What are you favorite kind of Christmas cookies? Let us know in the comments below!
