Reindeer
Cookies
Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa will love a
plate of Rudolph Reindeer cookies when he comes to visit your home. Prepared
refrigerated dough is shaped into a triangular log and cut into cookies. After cooling, they are frosted and decorated
with pretzels, chocolate chips, and a gum drop.
Clean up as you cook so you can have plenty of time to enjoy the
holiday.
Recipe:
1 16.5-ounce roll peanut butter refrigerated
cookie dough, softened
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup vanilla prepared
frosting
48 small unsalted pretzel
twists
1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
(48)
12 small red gumdrops, cut in half
Preheat oven to 350-degrees. In
a mixing bowl, mix cookie dough with flour until well blended. Roll dough into a triangular shaped log. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Cut dough into 24 slices and place 3-inches
apart on a nonstick shiny cookie sheet.
Bake about 10 to 12 minutes until set.
Do not overbake. Let cool for 2
minutes of cookie sheet. Transfer to a
rack to cool completely.
Frost cookies leaving a 1/8-inch unfrosted around the edge. Press on two pretzels for antlers, two
chocolate chips for eyes, and half a gum drop for nose. Serve two on a plate for Santa. Yield:
24 reindeer
Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S. Family and Consumer Science Home Economist