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    Nutter Butter Polar Bear Cookies

    Published: Jan 15, '13 Β· Modified: Nov 15, '23 Β· By: Beth Klosterboer Β· Commission earned on paid or sponsored links.

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    Transform a plain store-bought cookie into a festive little treat! Make these Nutter Butter Polar Bear Cookies and your guests will be growling for you to whip up another batch!

    Nutter Butter Polar Bear Cookies.

    Once again, a simple peanut-shaped Nutter Butter Cookie has found its way onto my blog. Every time I look at a Nutter Butter, I can't help but envision it as an edible craft - and then I eat it. A few cookies do actually survive to become penguins, skulls, puppies, fuzzy pink slippers, or in this case, polar bears.

    Nutter Butter Polar Bears

    Before you begin, read my Chocolate Making Tips page if you don't have experience melting and working with candy coating or chocolate.

    Ingredients

    • 2 mini marshmallows per polar bear
    • melted white confectionery coating/candy melts or melted and tempered pure white chocolate
    • Nutter Butter Cookies
    • 2 mini chocolate chips per polar bear
    • 1 large chocolate chip per polar bear - You need a chip that is about Β½ inch in diameter, which is larger than a standard-size chip. I used Kroger's Private Selection Brand Semi-Sweet Chips. They were the perfect size.
    • black food coloring marker

    Supplies

    • kitchen shears (scissors) or a knife
    • candy dipping fork or kitchen fork
    • parchment paper cut into small squares set on a plate or baking sheet

    Instructions

    Decorating Nutter Butter Polar Bears with white chocolate, marshmallow ears, mini chocolate chip eyes, and chocolate chip noses.
    Mini marshmallows are a great tool for making any animals small round ears.

    Flatten two mini marshmallows into a circle. Use kitchen shears or a knife to cut off a small piece from one edge so that you can attach the marshmallows to your Nutter Butter.

    Dip the cut end of the marshmallow into the melted white confectionery coating.

    Press one on each side of the top half of a Nutter Butter Cookie to create the polar bear's ears.

    Allow the candy coating to dry.

    dipping a Nutter Butter Cookie in white chocolate.

    Dip the Nutter Butter Cookie into the melted white candy coating, completely submerging it. Use a dipping fork or a kitchen fork to lift the Nutter Butter up out of the white confectionery coating. Allow excess coating to drip off.

    Set the dipped cookie on parchment paper.

    Immediately while the coating is still wet, press two mini chocolate chips on the cookie for the eyes and one large chocolate chip for the nose.

    Freeze for 5 minutes until the candy coating is set. If using pure white chocolate refrigerate instead.

    Allow the cookie to come to room temperature, then use a food coloring marker to draw on a mouth and eyebrows.

    Tips:  If you are dipping your Nutter Butter Cookies into white confectionery coating, in order to get nice shiny looking polar bears you'll want to dip one, decorate it, then place it in the freezer. If you leave your dipped cookies out at room temperature for too long they will develop streaks and spots. If you use small squares of parchment paper set on plates or baking sheets you can easily put your cookies in the freezer as you finish decorating each one.

    Storage

    Store your Nutter Butter Polar Bears in an airtight container for up to several weeks. Do not store in the refrigerator or freezer.

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    Recipe

    white chocolate dipped Nutter Butter polar bear cookies.
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    Nutter Butter Polar Bears
    Prep Time
    30 mins
    Cook Time
    2 mins
    Chill Time
    5 mins
     

    Nutter butter cookies dipped in white candy melts are decorated to look like cute polar bears.

    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: cookies, decorated nutter butters, nutter butter cookies, white chocolate
    Servings: 8
    Calories: 190 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 16 mini marshmallows per polar bear
    • 12 ounces white candy melts, almond bark, or melting wafers
    • 8 Nutter Butter Cookies
    • 16 mini chocolate chips per polar bear
    • 1 large chocolate chip per polar bear
    • black food coloring marker
    Instructions
    1. Flatten two mini marshmallows into a circle.
    2. Cut off about β…“rd of each marshmallow.
    3. Press one on each side of the top half of a Nutter Butter Cookie to create the polar bear's ears.
    4. Pour the white candy melts into a microwave-safe bowl.

    5. Heat the candy melts on high power for 30-second bursts of power, stirring after each, until melted.

    6. Dip the Nutter Butter Cookie into the melted white candy melts, completely submerging it.
    7. Then, remove the cookie from the white chocolate and allow the excess to drip off.
    8. Set the dipped cookie on parchment paper.
    9. Immediately while the coating is still wet, press two mini chocolate chips on the cookie for the eyes and one large chocolate chip for the nose.
    10. Freeze for 5 minutes until the candy melts harden.
    11. Repeat, making a total of 8 polar bear cookies.
    12. Allow the cookie to come to room temperature, then use a food coloring marker to draw on a mouth and eyebrows.
    Recipe Notes

    Store your Nutter Butter Polar Bears in an airtight container for up to several weeks. Do not store in the refrigerator or freezer.

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    1. Anonymous

      October 26, 2013 at 12:05 am

      So Cute and delicious too! I just have to try to keep people out of the cookies so I can create before they gobble them up! Nutter Butters are a favorite at our house. Thank You for the instruction Beth, these will be FUN to make πŸ™‚
      Buffy

      Reply
    2. vivalatina

      March 21, 2013 at 5:29 pm

      So cute, i know these would fascinate the children.

      Reply
    3. Anonymous

      February 04, 2013 at 9:48 am

      thanks for share...

      Reply
    4. Kathie

      January 26, 2013 at 8:26 pm

      Thank you for linking up with me for Show and Tell Saturday at Sassy Little Lady! Be sure to stop by next week!
      http://www.sassylittlelady.com/blog/show-and-tell-saturday/show-and-tell-saturday
      Kathie

      Reply
    5. Diana - FreeStyleMama

      January 26, 2013 at 3:38 pm

      So so cute, Beth!!

      Reply
    6. April Tuell

      January 26, 2013 at 2:29 pm

      I found you from the Show and Tell Saturday link up. What cute cookies! I just started a new Saturday Spotlight Linky Party on my blog this week, and would love to have you stop by and share! http://angelshomestead.com/saturday-spotlight-1/

      Reply
    7. Kathie

      January 26, 2013 at 2:56 am

      Hello!
      I found you from the Mop it up Mondays link up. I would love to have you come share your post with my readers over at Sassy Little Lady’s Show and Tell Saturday. Hope to see you there!

      Kathie
      http://www.sassylittlelady.com/blog/show-and-tell-saturday/show-and-tell-saturday

      Reply
    8. Sarah Tackett

      January 22, 2013 at 7:35 pm

      A cup of coffee would go great with these. I'm currently hosting a giveaway to win a $20 Starbucks gift card and would love for you to enter! http://sarahsaturdiy.blogspot.com/2013/01/love-is-in-air-giveaway.html

      Reply
    9. Brenda

      January 18, 2013 at 2:04 pm

      How Yummy & ADORABLE!! :o)

      Reply
    10. Nann from At Nann's Table

      January 18, 2013 at 1:53 pm

      You've done it again!! Just too cute and clever. I'd love to hop into your brain and see all your fabulous ideas. I know I'd spend hours there and have a ball!! N.

      Reply
    11. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

      January 18, 2013 at 3:05 am

      I love these! So cutie cute! πŸ™‚

      Reply
    12. Trish - Sweetology101

      January 16, 2013 at 6:22 pm

      geepers these are just adorable for sure.

      Reply
    13. Tiffany@Fizzy Party!

      January 16, 2013 at 4:32 am

      Cute! Perfect for these cold temps right now.

      Reply
    14. Sue

      January 15, 2013 at 6:39 pm

      You've done it again, Beth! Your polar bears are perfectly darling! I need to have a closer look at those Nutter Butters and come up with something:)

      Reply
    15. Manu CatMan

      January 15, 2013 at 6:14 pm

      Oh!!! superbe!!!
      love it

      Reply
    16. The Partiologist

      January 15, 2013 at 2:41 pm

      With just a few supplies you have created a an adorable polar bear!

      Reply
    17. Lisa@hooplapalooza

      January 15, 2013 at 2:16 pm

      oh Beth! these guys make me giggle! :>D

      Reply
    18. madelein - mother of six

      January 15, 2013 at 1:57 pm

      Soo cute πŸ™‚

      Reply
    19. Midori

      January 15, 2013 at 1:03 pm

      Awwww, so adorable! Very very cute! Thanks for the instructions! πŸ™‚

      Reply
    20. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      January 15, 2013 at 12:58 pm

      Aww...those are adorable Beth!!

      Reply
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