Let me do you a favor and make you the hit of your next Christmas party. I feel as though the holiday celebrations have been non-stop for me and Ander. It's been pretty insane around here this last week, but I was able to pull off some of my mom's Santa Nutter Butter cookies for my clients. They are always a hit! Allow me to share:
One of the great things about these cookies is you can make them in serious bulk. A whole package of Nutter Butters will be perfect for any gathering. We'll start by first melting your white chocolate. This is tricky because the consistency has to be right or the cookies won't dip smoothly. I add some shortening to my chocolate a little at a time until I have the right consistency. You don't want your chocolate soupy, but you also want it easily dippable. The consistency you are looking for is for the chocolate to stream off of a fork after you've dipped the fork into it. It should't be watery, and it shouldn't come off in globs.
So dip your nutter butters about a third of the way into your white chocolate and line them all up on your wax paper.
Let those dry for about 15 minutes or so, or until the chocolate is hardened. Dip the other side of the nutter butter in the chocolate as well, but this time you'll have to be quick, because you'll be adding your sugar crystals.
I've found that you get a more even line when you take the plastic shaker top off of your bottle. I just tapped the sugar gently in a horizontal line leaving a small stripe of white where the fuzz should be on a santa hat. You can tap off the excess later after the cookie has dried.
Once your cookies are dry and you've tapped off the excess sugar crystals, it's time to add his cute little Santa face. I used mini chocolate chips for his eyes and a red hot for his nose.
Spoon your excess white chocolate into a ziploc bag spread over a cup. Snip the corner off so you can pipe the chocolate for the face.
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Dab two small dots for the chocolate chips, and a small dot for the red hot.
And last but not least, put one more small dot of white chocolate on top of the sugar crystals to make his Santa hat pom pom.
You're welcome, I just made you the star of your next Christmas party.
Thank you to my mom who has been making these cute little guys every Christmas for the past year. She found the recipe somewhere years ago and I've just become her copy cat.
