You're guaranteed to get smiles when you make these whimsical treats, with packaged peanut-butter cookie bodies and pretzel legs and feelers.
Cutie Bugs
- Prep Time 60 min
- Total 0 min
- Servings 32
- Ingredients 4
Ingredients
- 12 oz. chocolate-flavored candy coating, cut into pieces
- 1 (1-lb.) pkg. peanut butter-filled sandwich cookies
- 64 tiny pretzel twists
- 4 teaspoons miniature candy-coated chocolate pieces
Instructions
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Step1Line cookie sheets with waxed paper. Melt candy coating in small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth.
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Step2For each cookie bug, hold 1 cookie with tongs; dip entire top and sides of cookie in melted coating, letting excess drip off. Place cookie, coated side up, on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets.
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Step3Cut pretzels into curved pieces for legs. Dip 1 end of each leg piece in coating; place 3 legs on each side of each cookie.
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Step4Cut 2 short pretzel pieces for antennae. Dip 1 end of each antennae piece in coating; place on top of cookie. Place chocolate pieces near antennae for eyes. If desired, decorate bugs with additional candies. Let stand about 10 minutes or until coating is set before storing.
Nutrition
140
Calories
7g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
18g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 65
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 95mg
- 4%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 18g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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