Max Nutter Butters

Name: Max Nutter Butters
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients: 24 Nutter Butter cookies; 12 pretzels, halved; 8 ounces white baking chocolate, melted; 48 candy eyes; 24 Red Hots; 24 caramels, halved

Total Time Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield 2 dozen

Test Kitchen Approved

Craft no-bake Max Nutter Butters with pretzel horns, molded caramel ears and candy eyes. They're quick to assemble, playful to serve and ideal for a holiday cookie tray.

Ingredients

24 Nutter Butter cookies
12 pretzels, halved
8 ounces white baking chocolate, melted
48 candy eyes
24 Red Hots
24 caramels, halved

Directions

To assemble, use melted chocolate to attach pretzel half on the top point of one cookie so pretzel is pointing out like a horn. Mold caramel halves into ear shapes, attach with white chocolate. Attach two eyes and one Red Hot nose with white chocolate. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 156 calories, 6g fat (3g saturated fat), 1mg cholesterol, 89mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 0 fiber), 2g protein.

These Nutter Butters are transformed into Max the dog from the Grinch with a little help from pretzel antlers, candy eyes, caramel ears and a Red Hot nose! —Margaret Knoebel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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