These reindeer cookies are easy to make and so adorable! They’re the cutest Christmas cookies!
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How darling are these reindeer cookies?
You know I love reindeer treats this time of year. Like our Reindeer Oreo Cookie Balls, Reindeer Rice Krispie Treats, and our Rolo Pretzel Reindeer. They are all so adorable and such fun festive treats this time of year!
I love cake mix cookies, so when I thought of making these cute reindeer cookies I knew cake mix cookies would be the perfect base. I then topped the cookies with a store bought chocolate frosting to keep that step simple as well. They’re then topped with a mini vanilla wafer cookie, m&m, candy eyes and mini pretzels for the antlers.
These would be great for a Christmas party! And they’re simple enough to decorate I bet your kids would love to help!
I used a mix of red and brown m&ms for the noses. Because there are of course regular reindeer and special reindeer like Rudolph. (Funnily enough I ran out of red and brown m&ms – you never know how many will be in a package! But luckily remembered I had some special m&ms that Nate brought home from Australia – banana m&ms and apple toffee m&ms – both delicious!)
And you can make them with full pretzel antlers or partially broken pretzel antlers. I did a mix of both. But either way, adorable!
Reindeer Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 can chocolate frosting (1-2 cups of homemade chocolate frosting)
- 24-28 mini Nilla Wafers
- 24-28 red and brown m&ms
- 1 package candy eyes
- 48-56 mini pretzels
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium sized bowl combine your cake mix, eggs and vegetable oil and stir together to make a thick cookie batter.
- Scoop 1 1/2 - 2 TBS of dough and roll into a ball. Repeat with additional dough.
- Place 12 cookies onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone liner.
- Bake cookies for about 8 minutes until the tops start to get crinkly.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 2 minutes on baking sheet.
- Transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
- Spread frosting over the top of a cookie.
- Place one nilla wafer onto the bottom half of cookie.
- Place two candy eyes above the nilla wafer.
- Place two pretzels above the eyes like antlers.
- Attach one m&m to each Nilla wafer using frosting.
- Allow frosting to set and serve!
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robin says
Such a cute design and an easy recipe. One of the few times I’ve seen something cute online and it came out perfectly! I followed the directions exactly except- I made homemade chocolate buttercream for the icing. Still surprisingly easy even though they look hard to make. Got so many compliments. Thank you for sharing!
Aimee says
Yay Im so glad you liked them 🙂
Brenda Jones says
This looks like a fun cookie to make for my church cookie exchange on Saturday.
Where do you buy the candy eyes for the reindeer cookies?
Aimee says
They can be found at most grocery stores near the sprinkles! Ive seen them at Target, Walmart, and Kroger stores!
Pattihabby says
These are SOOO Adorable ! I’ve looked at a lot of Reindeer Cookie Recipes, and yours won my heart !
Great for the Grandchildren’s Cookies for Santa !
Aimee says
Aww thank you so much! Hope your grandchildren love them!
HappyMom says
Thank you so much for the recipe. I am so making these for my daughter’s Pre-K ChrIstmas party tomorrow. I will be in charge of treats and these are cutest ever. SO EXCITED! Hope it will turn out well. My daughter will be helping out so this is a fun bonding for us. Thank you again and have a happy holidays.
Aimee Berrett says
Hope the kids all liked them and your daughter enjoyed decorating them with you. So fun!
Amanda Bergsten says
Ours came out very cute we used some quick chocolate and covered the pretzels in it as well, this recipe says it’s serves 24-28 though and we were only able to make 16.
Aimee Berrett says
So glad you liked the cookies! Sorry you didn’t get as many though, I’ve made cake mix cookies over a dozen times and I always get at least 24 cookies from the batch, maybe yoursome were bigger than mine.
Ganesh 108 names says
I’m definitely making this!!!
Shannon Erickson says
Thank you for sharing this adorable recipe. I will be making these for the grandchildren this weekend. I love your site.