Nutter Butter Santa Cookies

Do wanna make your cookie trays look cute and more like Christmas? Take this Nutter Butter Santa Cookies recipe and achieve your goal of having cute Christmas cookies. Make your store-bought nutter butter cookies become jolly Santas with white and red candy melts, candy eyes, and sprinkles.

All About Nutter Butter Santa Cookies!

Well, as the holiday season has finally come, we want it to be special as possible. We are preparing so much from decorations down to the food that we prepare. However, sometimes, we just run out of time that we may forget to plan our desserts. 

Worry no more because you can still have cookies as your snack or dessert. You can just buy peanut butter cookies and turn them into Santa cookies for your cute and festive Christmas cookie trays. 

This recipe will help you outline the ingredients and steps to follow so you can decorate your plain butter cookies. I am sure that both children and adults will adore these treats!

Moreover, since kids are having their time off from school, this can be a great activity to have fun bonding with them. The steps to follow are easy and simple that I am sure they will enjoy!

Equipment that You’ll Need

This recipe requires a few tools or equipment to prepare. Here are the following: 

• Parchment-lined baking sheet. This is where the cookies will be placed while allowing them to set.
• 2 small microwaveable bowls. These will be the containers for the red and white candy melts. 
• Parchment paper or a small Ziploc bag. Used to avoid candy melt sticking to the baking sheets. It will keep your baking sheets clean and cookies easy to be removed. 

Ingredients that You’ll Prepare

Likewise, there are a few ingredients that we have to set before we can finally begin decorating our butter cookies. Here they are: 

• Nutter butter cookies. You can begin by having 9 of these. But, you can have more if you wish. 
• Red candy melts. You will need ¼ cup of this. 
• White candy melts. You will need ½ cup of this. 
• Candy eyes. If you will make 9, you will need 18 candy eyes.
• Red ball sprinkles. You will need 9 of these if you are making 9 Santa cookies.

How to Make the Nutter Butter Santa Cookies

The procedure of decorating our Santa Cookies is very simple. 

Begin by melting the red candy melts according to package instructions. Once melted, you can now dip one of the Nutter butter cookies into the red chocolate and place it on parchment. 

Next, pop them into the freezer while you melt the white candy melts. Once the white candy melts have been melted dip the other end of the night or butter into the white bringing it

up to the center of the cookie. Place back on the parchment.

Lastly, add the leftover white chocolate to the piping bag. Snip off a small hole at the tip and with a dab of melted chocolate, attach the candy eyes and a red ball sprinkles for the nose. Place on parchment paper until set.

Once the melts are already dry and set, you can now serve these cute Nutter Butter Santa Cookies. 

Chef’s Notes:

As your Chef, I have a note for you. If it is too thick after fully melting add coconut oil so that it sets faster. Using Vegetable oil will cause it to take longer to say because it’s in liquid form as a best practice using oil that hardens when solidified.