Make some cute doggo treats and have fun with your kids! These Peanut Butter Puppies are so simple to make and just as fun to eat… if you can get over their cuteness!
In keeping with the theme of independence, I have decided to scale back some for the remainder of the summer. Don’t worry, I wont be disappearing, instead my posts will be shorter and my projects will be simpler.
Not only do I want to enjoy some summer fun, but I am also preparing our home for a wonderful arrival. No, I’m not having a baby, but my husband and I will be welcoming someone into our family. We will be hosting another exchange student and she arrives in early August. I want to devote my time to her, to get to know her, and help her adjust to our culture before she begins school.
I have been very busy recently preparing projects to share with you in anticipation of my being totally and completely distracted and am so excited to share them with you. It will be challenge for me to resist posting them all right away. I was on such a roll transforming store bought cookies and snack cakes into cute edible crafts last week, that I even made some for Halloween, Christmas and Easter. I may break down and share the Easter one just for fun because it is too darn adorable to keep to my self. I hope you enjoy my creations including these silly little cookie pups.
Peanut Butter Puppies
You’ll need:
Nutter Butter Cookies
2 white chocolate chips per cookie*
1 large milk or dark chocolate chip per cookie*
1 caramel square per cookie
black food coloring marker
small dab of creamy peanut butter per cookie
knife
cutting board
*I used Nestle White Morsels and Kroger Private Selection Milk Chocolate Chips. Callebaut Chocolate Callets are also a good size. You just want to make sure that the chips you use for the puppy noses are larger than the chips you use for the eyes.
Instructions:
Use a sharp knife to cut off the tips of your white chocolate chips. Draw pupils onto each white chip using a black food coloring marker.
Cut the tips off the milk chocolate chips.
Cut your caramels in half and form each half into a dog ear. If you prefer, you can roll the caramels out using a rolling pin and cut them into ear shapes, discarding the excess caramel. These will be lighter and easier to use if you need to move your puppies around a bit.
Use creamy peanut butter to adhere your decorations to your cookie.
That’s it. Aren’t they sweet?
Items used to make the recipe that are available on Amazon.com.
Since my daughter has a habit of bringing home stray dogs since she was a child, I made these for her 25th birthday bash. But I used chocolate cookie dough and marshmallow fluff and Nutella since she is allergic to peanut butter. They turned out just as cut, but a bit more work, since I had to shape the dough by hand to get the peanut shape.
That’s a really amazing habit! I’m so glad you used my recipe as inspiration to make your own version. I hope your daughter loved them!
Making these for our Doxie fundraiser in Carmel tomorrow. Potluck and the Weinermoble on the beach in the loveliest part of California.
Thank you for sucha adorable idea.
I’m so happy to hear you are making these cute puppies! I hope your fundraiser is a huge success!!!
I have sleep overs for my great nephews ages 2 1/2 & 51/2. We always make some type of easy-to-do cookies. THIS willl be perfect! They will get a kick out of making puppies! Last summer we made the pretzel Rolo fish cookies and the blue Jello in an actual fish bowl with the Swedish red gummy fish. Fun times for them making memories with their Great Aunt Nan.
Sounds like so much fun. I do hope you and the kids enjoy making your puppies!
Love how simple these are. I am making a cake for my godson's birthday and needed a simple decoration for the cupcakes I'll need to feed those the cake won't. Can't wait to put these together!
Congrats, Beth! Your post was my #3 most clicked post in the Mommy Club this past week! i can't wait to try your little puppies with my boys!
Thanks for sharing and stop on over and see your feature. I can't wait to see what you share this week!
Crystal
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Woo Hoo! I love it when that happens. Thanks for featuring my recipe. I appreciate you hosting your linky party=)
Just to let you know that you have been featured on my link party – http://serenityyou.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/serenity-saturday-48.html
Natasha xx
Thanks for the feature, Natasha! I appreciate it.
Oh my goodness…those are the cutest Nutter Butters I have ever seen!!! Love these!!!
ADORABLE! Pinning it to my Kids in the Kitchen board.
Also – love how you've added the ingredients from amazon at the bottom. 🙂
Thanks for the pin, Krissy. It's nice to hear you appreciate the amazon links. I think they are really helpful, just to see what I used to make the projects.
Those are so cute and creative!
Looks yummy. What a fun blog check out my blog if you get a min and have not already :).
Have a great day
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Very cute! Love them. I like how they are so simple, too! Pinning.
I just stumbled on your blog through Tastespotting, and I love your creations!!! Amazing!!!
These are so cute!!!
would love it if you could share this on my link party – http://serenityyou.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/serenity-saturday-47.html
These are absolutely adorable. Great work.
So cute!! Love your creativity!
Awww, shucks, cute isn't the word.
I found this through Turning the Clock Back's What's Cooking Wednesday. I have linked in bacon and scrambled egg rolls. Have a lovely week.
So silly, so cute, so fun! Love it!
These are so cute! Almost to cute to eat (-;
What a cute snack! You are so creative!
These are incredible – sooooooooooooo sweet
And you are super creative. A real joy to see your work
These are soooo cute!!
Love these Beth!!! I will share these for sure. I love simple cookies like this…so cute!
These are really, really cute!!! Have fun with your exchange student! How fun!
Adorable! I'm pinning this idea, thanks!
How cute are these!!
Aww! These are adorable! Definitely making them with my daughter soon.
TFS!
How cute!!
These are so cute!! Very fun 🙂
These are so cute!
So super cute! And well, I'm a bit obsessed with Nutters. 🙂
These are awesome Beth! I'm going to pin these!
I love these! laura@imnotatrophywife.com
Thanks for the pin Laura!
That is sooooooo cute! Love it. Of course, we can't get Nutter Butters out in the boonies here where we live but I am going to see if I can't find a substitute. These are adorable 🙂
If you can find any oval shaped sandwich cookie, it will work fine. The peanut shape is nice, but I think oval will work too.