Christmas Spiced Rudolph Cookies to Cook with Kids
One of our favourite books to share during our Storybook Advent is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and for today’s Rudolph Activity we’re are heading into the kitchen to get cooking with the kids. So here we have our Spiced Speculoos Rudolph Cookies Recipe to Cook with Kids.
Christmas Cookie Recipe for Kids to Make
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One of our families all-time favourite Christmas books in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Yes, we could simply watch the classic movie, but the pages of our Rudolph book are filled with beautiful illustrations that truly bring the story to life.
This year I thought it might be fun to make a cute Rudolph cookie. In the past, we made a gingerbread cookie Santa sleigh and with the complete team of reindeer. This time around we wanted to focus on the hero of the story, Rudolph.
While I do love gingerbread, we recently discovered speculoos cookies.
Speculoos Cookies to Bake with Kids at Christmas
My daughter kept talking about eating speculoos cookie dough treats.
So, I learned a little more about the recipe. Speculoos cookies are similar to gingerbread cookies, but they have honey instead of molasses and don’t have any ginger.
I loved the soft texture of speculoos cookies and the gingery flavour of gingerbread cookies.
So, I combined the best of both recipes in one amazing Christmas cookie.
So, it’s time to bake up the cutest and tastiest Rudolph cookies you’ve seen.
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Top Tip for Making these Spiced Christmas Cookies with Kids
When it comes to rolling out the dough I like to do it on parchment paper or on a pastry board of marble – it makes sure the dough doesn’t stick and is easier for my daughter to roll on.
Be sure to flour your rolling pin as well!
Christmas Spiced Rudolph Cookies
Equipment
- 2 ½ inch heart-shaped cookie cutter
- Baking Tray
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- ½ cup of packed brown sugar
- ½ cup of honey
- 1 large egg
- 2 ½ cups plain flour all-purpose in the USA
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda Baking Sofa in the USA
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground anise
- ½ tsp salt
For decorations
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 24 mini-Rolo candies
- 24 red M&M candies – or hard shelled
- chocolates
- 48 candy eyes
- candy-coated chocolate chips or mini candy Christmas lights
Instructions
To make the cookies
- Beat together butter, brown sugar and honey in an electric mixer (or by hand) until combined.
- Then beat in the egg.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, anise and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients into the butter/sugar mixture and beat until the dough forms.
- If using an electric mixer, the dough will pull away from the sides of the bowl.
- Divide the dough in half and transfer each half of the dough onto a piece of plastic wrap and press into a disc.
- Pop in the fridge to chill for an hour. The dough will be a little sticky, not to worry.
- Once the dough has chilled, roll one half the dough on a floured counter or piece of parchment paper.
- Roll the dough to about ¼ inch thickness.
- Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut the cookies.
- Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in the oven at 160C for approx 12 minutes.
- The cookies will have a little colour on the edges.
- Once the cookies are baked, place them on a cooling rack. They need to be totally cool before you decorate them.
Decorating the Rudolph Cookies
- Either melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler or at 10 second intervals in the microwave until melted.
- Transfer the melted chocolate to a piping bag, with a small hole tip. The chocolate can make the piping bag hot to the touch. Wait for the chocolate to be cool enough before handing it over to a child. If you’re chocolate cools completely, you can always warm it up again.
- Start by placing a dab of chocolate at the point of the heart and place a mini-Rolo as the reindeer muzzle.
- Then add another dab of chocolate on top of the Rolo and press in the red candy. Rudolph’s nose is ready to go.
- Next, add two dabs of chocolate to secure the eyes in place. Don’t worry if you drip chocolate around the eyes – we thought the drips looked like eyelashes.
- The finishing touches are the antlers. Pipe the antlers above the eyes.
- Add the little colourful candies so that Rudolph has Christmas lights on his antlers. You don’t have to add the lights, he looks lovely with bare antlers.
- Let the chocolate dry and then share the Christmas cookie joy.
Notes
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More Christmas Cookie Recipes to Bake with Kids
- Make our Snowflake Gingerbread Men Cookies with Kids – they take a little stirring but as you stir together you can create lovely memories in the kitchen.
- Perfect for leaving out for Santa our Christmas Eve Cookies are simple and easy to make.
More Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Activities for Kids
- Even easier to “bake” with kids are our Rudolph Oreo Cookies.
- Have fun and get creative with the kids making a paper plate Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
- Make this Rudolph vs Reindeer Tic Tac Toe Painted Rock Game with or for the kids.
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Jen Farr is a writer and stay-at-home mom with 2 adventurous tween-aged daughters. Jen shares everything that lands on their kitchen counter on her blog, Kitchen Counter Chronicles.
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