This easy Rudolph Reindeer Cookies Recipe will be the star of your Christmas dessert table this year!
Prep Time20 minutesmins
Cook Time7 minutesmins
Chill Time2 hourshrs
Total Time2 hourshrs27 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake mix cookie, Christmas cookies
Servings: 15
Ingredients
13.25ouncesBetty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
1/3cupMelted Butter {Vegetable or Canola Oil can be substituted}
2largeEggs
2cupsChocolate Frosting
15+Mini Nilla Wafers
30+Candy Eyeballs
30+Tiny Pretzel Twists
15+Cinnamon Imperials Candies
Instructions
Combine Cake Mix, Melted Butter {or oil}, and Eggs in large mixing bowl, and mix with hand mixer or stand mixer until well combined.
Cover dough and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours.
After dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line large baking sheets with parchment paper.
Form dough into balls, a little larger than your typical cookie… I usually use 2 tbsp. – 2.5 tbsp. of dough per each dough ball.
Bake on center oven rack for 7 - 13 minutes, or until done. {Note: Bake on the shorter end of the time range for non-stick cookie sheets & longer end of the time range for aluminum cookie sheets}
Remove from oven and allow to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes.
Transfer cookies to wire racks to finish cooling. {Allow cookies to cool COMPLETELY before decorating. I usually let them sit out at least 30 minutes before I start frosting}
Once cookies have cooled completely, apply a smooth layer of chocolate frosting to your cookie.
Then gently press 1 nilla wafer onto the cookie for the snout, add 2 eyes, and 2 pretzels for ears.
Now take your cinnamon candy, and add just a little bit of chocolate frosting to the back, and place down onto the nilla wafer for Rudolph's red nose. {the frosting will act like glue and help the nose stay in place}
Then repeat the frosting and decorating process until all cookies are finished. Aren't they SO cute?!? ENJOY!