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These cookies are so cute! They’re fun and easy to make. (Kids LOVE them!) And the sweet and salty flavor combination of the cookies and pretzels makes them one of my favorites. They’re also cute, did I mention that? I love cute cookies.
I made them with a chocolate cookie dough, but you could use gingerbread or sugar cookie dough, too. (Or any dough you like!) For the eyes, if you use a lighter-colored dough, you might want to use chocolate chips instead of butterscotch chips for more contrast. You could also use mini M&Ms. The nose can be anything–candied cherries, gum drops, or any other suitably sized candy. I used large peanut butter M&Ms.
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How to make Reindeer Cookies:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
mini pretzel twists
butterscotch chips
large red M&Ms
Preheat your oven to 350-degrees. In a medium-size bowl, beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer. Add sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Beat again. Beat in egg and vanilla. Mix in flour with a spoon. Divide the dough into two pieces. Wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.
Roll out one piece of the cookie dough into an 8-inch square (approximately, don’t get hung up on that). Trim sides to make them even. (Save the dough scraps to roll out again with the second piece of dough.) Cut into approximately 2- to 3-inch squares.
Cut across the squares to make triangles. It doesn’t really matter what size the cookies are, by the way. Make them whatever size you want! Place two pretzels at the top on each side. Just slide them under the edge of the cookie and press down on the dough very lightly to make sure they stick. Place two butterscotch chips for the eyes.
Press a large red M&M onto each cookie for the nose.
Bake at 350-degrees for about 8 minutes. How adorable are these?
If you realize after baking that you accidentally forgot to completely decorate a few of them….
….you should eat them immediately. And not tell anyone. It’s the right thing to do. You only want your family to have the good ones.
P.S. You’d better have some of the good ones, too. You have to test them!
*This makes about 5-6 dozen cookies, though the number of cookies you’ll end up with depends on the size of the triangles you cut out.
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And they do look mouth watering yummy as well.
Just have to make them ..
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These are adorable! I have never seen any like them.
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These are adoroable! I have not seen them before.
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Oh yes, and I hear snow is headed your way. I’m envious. Thought I saw a flurry the other day, but it must have been a bug. We never get any good snow in middle Tennessee. Wish I was there!
Susan at Charm of the Carolines
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We are driving to Niceville today to pick up our daughter from the airport and this will be a fun thing to do! Doesn’t matter that she is 23 years young….still a “young’un” at heart! And still my baby.
Jessica loves making cookies…oh the fun we are going to have making cookies and baking bread!
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Get some mini pretzels, put a chocolate kiss on each one. I use my dehydrator trays to lay them all out. Then I pop the tray in the dehydrator until the chocolate kisses get soft and glossy. Take them out and push an M&M into each kiss. Put the tray in the freezer so they’ll set quickly……….Reindeer kisses!!
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LOVE to visit here. :-)
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Are you ready for the “Big Snow”
we are going to get tonight and tomorrow? Hope you have your fire burning and your generator ready just in case it gets bad. I made my mad dash to the store today while I was out. lol 
How much snow do you think we will get?
Merry Christmas!
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Did I miss something–are the results of the Good mood blog in?
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well!!
I am not going to be reading their blog–they didnt pick the right person–in my opinion.
We all know you are the best person for the job, and the extra income would have been good for you as well.
Time will tell————
JO
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Clearly the Sam-e gig just wasn’t meant to be. That means you will be available when something bigger and better comes along.
You’re the best in my book!!!!!
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