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! Let the holiday baking begin! The key to these cookies is to add the chocolate covered pretzels and m&m’s to the cookies while they’re still warm from baking in the oven. If you wait too long, they are not as easily added in.

What you need to make Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies:

peanut butter
brown sugar
shortening
milk
vanilla
egg
all-purpose flour
baking soda
salt
chocolate covered pretzels
mini brown M&Ms
regular sized red M&Ms

How to make Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies:

Preheat: Preheat oven to 375°F.
Combine the wet ingredients: 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.
Combine the dry ingredients: In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended together.
Scoop and form: 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, pinch 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 to 8 minutes, until set or just beginning to brown.
Press candies into warm cookies: Remove from oven and immediately (and gently) press two chocolate covered pretzels into the tops of the cookies for reindeer antlers. Press two mini brown M&Ms in for the eyes and one red M&M for the Rudolph nose. If you run out of red M&M’s for the noses, you could use brown and green M&M’s too.
Cool: Allow to cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire rack or paper towel to cool completely.
Amount: Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

How to store Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies:

Store these cookies like you would any cookies. Just keep them in an airtight container at room temperature. They would also taste great chilled in the fridge. They should last around one week!

Gifting Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies:

These little Rudolph cookies are the perfect Christmas gift for friends and neighbors! You can just just put them in a clear sack and add a cute printable tag. So easy and creative!

How to make PB reindeer cookies:

We made a little how-to video below to show the process, but basically you will form your dough into triangle-like shapes. When your cookies are warm out of the oven you will then press in your candies to make the face and antlers of a reindeer!

Just a fun little How-To video to show you how easy they are to make.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Adorable peanut butter cookies that look like reindeer and even Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Author Kami | NoBiggie.net

Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 bag of Flipz chocolate-covered pretzels
2 tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms
2 small bags of Regular-sized red M&Ms - for the Rudolph Nose

Instructions

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.
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, pinch 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 to 8 minutes, until set or just beginning to brown.
Remove from oven and immediately (and gently) press two chocolate covered pretzels into the tops of the cookies for reindeer antlers. Press two mini brown M&Ms in for the eyes and one red M&M for the Rudolph nose. If you run out of red M&M's for the noses, you could use brown and green M&M's too.
Allow to cool 2 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire rack or paper towel to cool completely.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.