You are here: Home / Recipes / Dessert Recipes / Easy Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe
By Melissa 4 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links that help support this site at no additional cost to you. Please read my disclosure page for more info.
These adorable peanut butter Rudolph Cookies are adorable, festive and so easy to make. We love making cute Christmas cookies but who wants to spend hours making them!?! Not us, we love easy Christmas cookie recipes that are super cute and fun. These are perfect for a Christmas party. Be sure to check out all our easy party planning ideas.
Table of Contents
Rudolph Cookies
These Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies make a fun treat for kids (and adults) plus they are so easy to make that the kids can help. This recipe requires just a few simple ingredients and you may have most of them on hand already! See the full printable recipe below.
I love that these are peanut butter easy reindeer cookies. Many Christmas cookies are sugar cookies so these have a whole different taste profile. These Rudolph cookies with pretzels have a yummy crunch!
Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe Ingredients
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Egg
1 1/3 cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
48 Red M&M’s
96 mini Chocolate Chips
Mini Twist Pretzels
How to Make Rudolph Cookies
Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated. Roll into 1/2-3/4″ balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart. Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie. Bake 12-14 minutes.
After you bake the Christmas Reindeer cookies, it is time to decorate! This is my favoritepart.
- Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
- Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
- Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
- If the antlers won’t stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.
Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies Recipe
Print Recipe
5 from 2 votes
Easy Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies Recipe
Author: Melissa
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 1 1/3 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 48 Red M&M’s
- 96 mini Chocolate Chips
- Mini Twist Pretzels
Instructions
Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.
Preheat oven to 350.
Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated.
See AlsoSavory Spiced Carrot Cake RecipeRoll into 1/2-3/4″ balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart.
Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie.
Bake 12-14 minutes.
Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers.
If the antlers won’t stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.
More Easy Christmas Recipes
- Grinch Cookie Pops
- Grinch Kebobs
- Reindeer Hot Chocolate – Easy DIY Gift
- Peppermint Hot Chocolate
- PeppermintMocha
Need Gift Ideas? So so many unique gift ideas for everyone on your list.
Reader Interactions
Comments
Gwen says
These are too cute! We have made a version of these with sugar cookies before, but peanut butter! Yes! Thanks for sharing! I’ll be pinning these. Merry Christmas!
Reply
Jamie says
Those are adorable, and look so yummy!! Thank you for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersPartyReply
These are so adorable, I wish my boys liked peanut butter so I could make these but I would end up having to eat them all! Stopping by from Motivation Monday! I hope you’ll linkup with our Pretty Pintastic Party too. I’ve pinned your post to my Christmas board.
Reply
Janet says
These are so cute.Reply
Leave a Reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
