Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies. Tear your eyes away from the adorable reindeer gingerbread cookies for a moment, and check out the deep dark circles under Larkin's eyes. We all have matching under-eye circles right now, because the kids have been sick for six days and none of us have slept through the night in over a week. Pipe black antlers coming out of the top of the head, over the gingerbread man's legs and feet. Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies

You can have Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies
  1. Prepare 1 of Your favorite gingerbread cut-out cookie recipe..
  2. You need 1 of Frosting either your favorite recipe, or store bought. In the colors White, Green, Black and Red(optional).
  3. You need 1 of Red Sprinkles/Jimmies (just a few).
  4. You need 1 of Red M&M's for nose.

With icing, attach chocolate chips for eyes and Red Hots for noses. These gingerbread cookies are both easly and classic, like my marbled holiday cut-out cookies. Gingerbread cookies themselves however, are unlike all others, a sweet-and-spicy cookie in one, with a rich history. To me, gingerbread cookies are the hallmark of the Christmas season and a must-make in my house.

Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies instructions

  1. Make your cookies as directed on the recipe. When done let fully cool..

  2. Place frosting in a cake decorating bag and use a round tip for the reindeer, face, and antlers. Using a little of the white frosting as "glue to place the M&M for the nose..

  3. Then using a leaf tip..(I use #67)..pipe on the leaves. (If you don't have a leaf tip you can always cut a very small upside down v shape in a corner of a plastic Ziploc bag).

  4. Then place 2 jimmies for the holly on the leaves. IF this is too hard then use the red frosting instead and do 3 small dots to represent berries. (I have done this both ways.).

  5. Be creative with the faces and have fun! :) When the frosting hardens then you can Store them in a air tight container. Enjoy..

Gingerbread Man Reindeer Cookies Did you know that you can create reindeer cookies out of gingerbread man cookie cutters? To do so, turn the gingerbread man cookie upside down. The legs of the man become the reindeer's antlers, the arms become the reindeer's ears, and the head is the reindeer's face. See more ideas about reindeer cookies, cookies, cookie decorating. These simple reindeer cookies are sugar cookies with reindeer gingerbread cookies in the middle.