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Bake with us! How to make Festive Reindeer Cookies
• Lynsey Macdonald
We're back with another edition of Bake with Us! Our November tutorial is here to kick off the festive season for you, helping you get planning for your Christmas treat making. Today, we're showing you how to make these super cute festive reindeer cookies!
These quick and easy treats are the perfect way to bring a touch of festive magic to any movie night or Christmas party. With just a few of our favourite products you can create these delicious buttercream topped cookies - perfect for any chocolate lover! A hit with kids and adults alike, we get the feeling you'll be making more than one batch of these...
Contents:
What products are needed to make reindeer cookies?
Recipe for the chocolate chip cookies
How to decorate your reindeer cookies
Video Tutorial
Shout out to our resident baker and content queen, Holly! Holly created this tutorial for you all to enjoy, and she has lots more ideas up her sleeve. But, if you have an idea for a bake you'd like us to create a tutorial for, don't hesitate to drop us a DM (including the words "Bake with Us"!).
What products are needed to make reindeer cookies?
Chocolate Buttercream (make your own or shop our range!)
Milk Chocolate Chips from Dr Oetker
Dark Chocolate Choco Writer from FunCakes
Sugar Decoration Eyeballs from Wilton or FunCakes
Red Medium Soft Pearl Sprinkles from FunCakes
White or Silver Lustre Dust (choose your favourite brand, we used Colour Mill!)
An Angled Spatula (we used the Loyal spatula!)
Festive Cupcake Box from Simply Making (we used the Santa's Belt box but there are lots to choose from)
Holds 9 Treat Box (remove insert!) from Simply Making
Food Safe Shredded Paper from Simply Making
Recipe for the cookies
You can absolutely work with pre-baked chocolate cookies for this tutorial to save time! However, if you do want to make your own, we LOVE this recipe for a triple chocolate cookie by @_poppycarr on TikTok!
This recipe creates five rich chocolate cookies, with both white and milk chocolate chunks. It's the perfect base for our reindeer treats, and a recipe we'll definitely be coming back to again.
How to decorate reindeer cookies for Christmas!
- Put your cookies to the side to let them cool, and start working on your antlers! Use your FunCakes Choco Writer to create two V shapes on a piece of parchment paper, one above the other, and join them together with a line through the middle. Repeat until you've made enough for your cookies and pop them in the fridge to set.
- While your antlers are setting, take your buttercream and spread a heaped spoonful across each of your cookies with your spatula.
- Place another piece of parchment paper/baking paper onto a plate or tray and press your cookies upside down onto the paper. Pop them into the fridge to to let the buttercream harden.
- After about 30 minutes, take your cookies and antlers out of the fridge. Peel your antlers away from the baking paper and press them into the buttercream.
- Place two candy eyeballs underneath the antlers for the eyes, and a small red pearl sprinkle for that iconic Rudolph nose!
- Next, take a white or silver lustre dust on a food-safe brush and gently tap it over each of the cookies for some sparkly festive flair.
- Finally, pop your cookies into your cupcake or treat boxes with some food safe shredded paper, and finish with a decorative ribbon for the perfect Christmas gift!
Video Tutorial
Thanks so much for joining us for another Bake with Us tutorial! If you follow along, which we hope you do, don't forget to share your cookies with us on social media! Tag us (@the_cake_decorating_co) so we don't miss them. It makes our day when we see you getting involved.
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