On the occasion of Christmas treat your family with these reindeer shaped peanut butter cookies - a tasty dessert.
Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 1 hr 20 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 96 small round pretzel twists
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips (96 chips)
- 1 tablespoon candies (48 candies)

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F (if using dark or nonstick cookie sheet, heat oven to 350°F). In large bowl, beat peanut butter, butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Stir in flour and baking powder.
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Step2For each cookie, shape 1-inch ball of dough into triangle shape about 1 1/2 inches long. On ungreased cookie sheet, place 2 pretzel twists about 1 inch apart to look like antlers; press top of dough triangle gently into pretzels. Repeat with remaining dough and pretzels.
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Step3Bake 5 to 10 minutes or until edges just begin to brown. Immediately press 2 chocolate chips for eyes and 1 cinnamon candy for nose onto each cookie. Let stand 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition
80
Calories
4g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
10g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 80
- Calories from Fat
- 35
- Total Fat
- 4g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 7%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 80mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 40mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 10g
- 3%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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