Recipe: Delicious Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies.

You can cook Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

1. You need 1 Cup of peanut butter.
2. It's 1 1/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar.
3. You need 1/2 cup of shortening or 1 stick of regular Crisco.
4. You need 3 tablespoons of milk.
5. Prepare 1 tablespoon of vanilla.
6. You need 1 of egg.
7. Prepare 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour.
8. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
9. You need 3/4 teaspoon of salt.
10. Prepare 1 bag of pretzels.
11. You need 2 of tube containers of Mini brown M&Ms (we used red).
12. It's 2 of small bags of Regular sized red M&Ms- for Rudolph's nose.

Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375° F..
2. 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"..
3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Add this to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended together..
4. Remove from oven and immediately (and gently) press 2 pretzels into the tops of the cookies for reindeer antlers. Press 2 mini brown M&Ms in for the eyes and one red M&M for Rudolph's nose. If you run out of red M&Ms.
5. 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, pin 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 - 8 minutes, until set or just beginning to brown..