Grinch Nutter Butter Cookies
Easy holiday treats! These Grinch Nutter Butter Cookies use candy melts and chocolate to turn peanut butter cookies into cute treats.
Servings: 6 cookies
Equipment
- Small microwave safe bowls
Ingredients
- 6 Nutter Butter Cookies
- ½ cup light green candy melts
- ⅓ cup white candy melts
- ¼ cup red candy melts
- 3 tablespoons dark chocolate candy melts
- 12 Mini yellow M&Ms
Instructions
- Prep the Candy and Cookies: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the green, white, and red candy melts into separate heat-safe bowls for melting. Add the dark chocolate melts to a pastry bag, ready for piping.
- Dip for the Face and Eyes: Melt the green candy in the microwave until smooth. Dip over half of each Nutter Butter into the melted green candy, tap off the excess, and place it on the tray. Immediately press two yellow mini M&M's onto the green coating for the eyes. Allow the green coating to set completely.
- Create the Hat: Melt the white candy melts and dip the uncoated end of the cookie just to the middle to form the straight hat rim; allow it to set. Next, melt the red candy and dip the white end, leaving a narrow white rim showing. Set on the tray and allow the candy coating to fully harden.
- Draw the Eyes: Melt the dark chocolate in the pastry bag. Snip the very end and pipe a small dot into the center of each yellow M&M for the pupils. Then, draw two small lines above each eye to define the eyebrows.
- Finish the Face: Pipe a single dot for the nose slightly below the center of the eyes. Finally, pipe the "U or V" shape for the mouth, add two short lines at each end of the mouth, and draw a final vertical line connecting the nose and the mouth.
- Allow to harden before serving or storing.