I love Nutter Butter cookies, so what better way than to use them to create fun Santa cookies? This Nutter Butter Santa Cookie Recipe recipe is fun to make. It actually looks harder than it really is. But, I wanted to make sure you had all the details. Check it out and have fun creating some jolly Santa’s for your family! Or, if you prefer cupcakes, be sure and check out these delightful Santa Claus Cupcakes! They are so bright and cute, you can’t resist a smile!
Nutter Butter Santa Cookie Recipe & Tutorial
Ingredients:
1 package Nutter Butter Cookies
1 package of Ghirardelli White Chocolate Wafers
Royal Icing
Royal Icing Ingredients:
2 egg whites
1 C powder sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp vanilla
Red & black gel food coloring
Santa Cookie Directions:
Line a cookie with wax paper.
Using a double boiler melt the white chocolate wafers.
Follow the example of the Santa cookies.
Dip the bottom half of each Nutter Butter cookies into the melted white chocolate.
Remove the cookie from the melted chocolate by using a fork.
Lay the white chocolate covered cookie on the wax paper to dry.
Refer to the picture of the cookie for the next steps.
Allow to dry completely.
Royal Icing Directions:
Separate the egg yolk from the whites, putting only the egg whites into a mixing bowl.
Stir in the sugar, cream of tarter and vanilla to the egg whites.
Beating on medium for 6 minutes.
If the icing has the appearance of soup, or is yellow in color, add more powder sugar, 1 cup.
Put the icing in a bowl.
Take out 2 TBSP of icing and add some drops of black gel food coloring. Stir well to mix well.
Begin to scoop all of the black icing and put it into a piping bag with #2 tip.
Spoon out another 3 TBSP of icing, keeping this icing white.
Spoon the white icing into another piping bag with a #2 tip.
Add red gel food coloring to the remaining icing stirring to mix well. Spoon the red icing into a third piping bag with a #2 tip.
With the red icing, outline the top of the Nutter Butter for the Santa hat.
Then fill it in with the remaining red icing. Allow to dry for about 30 seconds. Then add a red dot as shown in the picture for the mouth.
Using the white icing add a snowball to the top of the Santa Hat and a brim across the lower part of the hat.
Add a white icing mustache just below the the red dot mouth. Give it 30 seconds before adding the black eyes.
Using the black icing and make two black dots for the eyes before the white brim on the Santa hat.
Allow the chocolate and icing to completely dry.
Enjoy!
Print this recipe:
- Nutter Butter Santa Cookie
- Ingredients:
- 1 package Nutter Butter Cookies
- 1 package of Ghirardelli White Chocolate Wafers
- Royal Icing
- Royal Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 C powder sugar
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Red & black gel food coloring
- Santa Cookie Directions:
- Line a cookie with wax paper.
- Using a double boiler melt the white chocolate wafers.
- Follow the example of the Santa cookies.
- Dip the bottom half of each Nutter Butter cookies into the melted white chocolate.
- Remove the cookie from the melted chocolate by using a fork.
- Lay the white chocolate covered cookie on the wax paper to dry.
- Refer to the picture of the cookie for the next steps.
- Allow to dry completely.
- Royal Icing Directions:
- Separate the egg yolk from the whites, putting only the egg whites into a mixing bowl.
- Stir in the sugar, cream of tarter and vanilla to the egg whites.
- Beating on medium for 6 minutes.
- If the icing has the appearance of soup, or is yellow in color, add more powder sugar, 1 cup.
- Put the icing in a bowl.
- Take out 2 TBSP of icing and add some drops of black gel food coloring. Stir well to mix well.
- Begin to scoop all of the black icing and put it into a piping bag with #2 tip.
- Spoon out another 3 TBSP of icing, keeping this icing white.
- Spoon the white icing into another piping bag with a #2 tip.
- Add red gel food coloring to the remaining icing stirring to mix well. Spoon the red icing into a third piping bag with a #2 tip.
- With the red icing, outline the top of the Nutter Butter for the Santa hat.
- Then fill it in with the remaining red icing. Allow to dry for about 30 seconds. Then add a red dot as shown in the picture for the mouth.
- Using the white icing add a snowball to the top of the Santa Hat and a brim across the lower part of the hat.
- Add a white icing mustache just below the the red dot mouth. Give it 30 seconds before adding the black eyes.
- Using the black icing and make two black dots for the eyes before the white brim on the Santa hat.
- Allow the chocolate and icing to completely dry.
- Enjoy!
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