Everybody will love these lovable chocolate Reindeer Cookies at Christmas.
Christmas Cookies
As somebody who painfully lacks culinary creative abilities, I’ve been having plenty of enjoyable within the kitchen currently making novelty cookies, just like the Peanut Butter Spider Cookies which have been an enormous hit at Halloween.
It’s worlds away from making one thing spectacular like a pristine-looking fondant coated cake with superbly piped buttercream roses, however I’ve accepted way back my limitations within the kitchen.
So we now enter the world of kitsch and I’m not too positive who’s having extra enjoyable making and consuming these enjoyable cookies – me or the youngsters!
Reindeer Christmas Cookies
My newest try at amusing my youngsters are these lovable and scrumptious Reindeer Christmas Cookies.
The inspiration comes from Hannah Miles, a finalist in one of many collection of MasterChef UK, and somebody who I love for leaving for her high-flying authorized profession to pursue her love of meals and cookbook writing.
Lately, I’ve been undecided as as to if I’ve departed methods from my former life as a company lawyer, or if I’m merely taking (a really lengthy) profession break.
Whichever it’s, I’m at all times impressed by different attorneys who’ve opted for a profession change down a extra artistic path. Perhaps I might be one in every of them, however part of me actually misses the mental challenges of my former authorized profession. We’ll see!
Reindeer Cookies
These Reindeer Cookies mix every little thing that my son likes to eat as junk meals (which he isn’t allowed to have, after all) – a chocolate cookie with salted pretzels and peanuts. Right here, the peanuts are even chocolate coated, which my son didn’t know existed and they’re now his concept of heaven!
My youngsters gave these Reindeer Cookies an enormous thumbs-up, and I’ve to say that they’re very scrumptious certainly.
The chocolate cookie is crunchy and candy, and they’re simply so cute to take a look at. Though, I do assume a few of them look a bit cross-eyed or grumpy, and I blame that on the sweet eyes that I’ve used; sadly, I can solely discover these oval sweet eyes the place I dwell they usually appear so as to add extra expression than plain spherical eyes!
I believe these Reindeer Christmas Cookies will present a pleasant different to the same old gingerbread cookies at Christmas, though I do know I might be baking many batches of the latter too.
Reindeer Christmas Cookies
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook dinner Time: 15 minutes
- Complete Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: Makes about 30 cookies
- Class: Cookies
- Technique: Oven
- Delicacies: Worldwide
Everybody will love these lovable chocolate Reindeer Cookies at Christmas.
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (with out fan).
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Place the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, baking soda and sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer.
- In a small saucepan, soften the butter and golden syrup (or mild corn syrup) collectively.
- Add the moist elements to the dry elements, and blend till every little thing is nicely included. In case you don’t have a stand mixer, you may merely do that with a big mixing bowl and wood spoon.
- If the combination appears to be like too dry, add a splash of milk or water till every little thing comes collectively right into a ball of dough. As there is no such thing as a egg on this recipe, the dough might be a bit crumbly anyway.
- Roll small items of dough right into a ball, a bit smaller than a golf ball, or make them as giant or as small as you want. I choose to make them small as they’ll unfold a bit upon baking.
- Place the balls of dough on the baking tray, however house them aside as they’ll unfold as they bake.
- Flatten the balls of dough and gently type oval shapes. Don’t fear if they appear cracked as a result of they’ll turn into crackly upon baking.
- Bake the cookies for 5 minutes after which take away them from the oven.
- Instantly press two pretzels into every cookie to type the antlers. Use a clear tea towel to softly flatten every cookie.
- Return the cookies to the oven to bake for an extra 5-7 minutes, or till the sides look agency.
- Instantly press one sugar-coated chocolate peanut into every cookie to type the nostril. The warmth from the cookies will soften the sugar-coated chocolate peanuts and make them stick collectively.
- Go away the cookies to relaxation on the new baking tray for about 5 minutes to agency up earlier than eradicating them rigorously to a wire rack to chill fully.
- Soften the chocolate in a bain-marie, or in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Place the melted chocolate right into a heat-proof piping bag or a silicone adorning pen.
- Dot a really tiny quantity of melted chocolate onto every cookie to make use of because the glue for every sweet eye.
- If any pretzel has turn into dislodged, merely “glue” it again with some melted chocolate.
Kitchen Notes
In case you can’t discover sweet eyes, you may nonetheless create eyes on the cookies by piping melted white chocolate to type the whites of the eyes, and dotting them with melted darkish chocolate to type the pupils.
OVEN TEMPERATURES
All recipes on this web site state temperatures for an everyday oven (i.e. a standard oven with out fan). When you’ve got a convection oven with a fan, please seek the advice of the producer’s handbook on the way to modify the temperature and baking time accordingly.
CONVERSIONS
To transform from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this helpful Conversion Chart for Fundamental Components.
Diet
- Serving Dimension: Dietary information per cookie
- Energy: 142
- Sugar: 10.1g
- Sodium: 46.6mg
- Fats: 6.3g
- Carbohydrates: 21.3g
- Fiber: 1.5g
- Protein: 2.1g
- Ldl cholesterol: 12.4mg
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This recipe was first revealed on 8 November 2017. It has been up to date with new photographs and extra complete recipe notes.
