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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » 4th of July

    Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies for your 4th of July Parties

    Published: Jun 28, '13 · Modified: Apr 20, '21 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Pay tribute to America this 4th of July by decorating some of these patriotic Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies. These cute treats will be a get as many "oohs and ahhs" as the independence day fireworks.

    Pay tribute to America this 4th of July by decorating some of these patriotic Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies. These cute treats will be a get as many "oohs and ahhs" as the independence day fireworks. 

    There back! I'm talking about Nutter Butters. I can't help myself. They are the ideal canvas on which to create so many edible crafts and their peanut shape was absolutely perfect for these Uncle Sam Cookies.

    Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies

    We are going to a friend's party on July 4th and the idea to create these patriotic cookies was hers. She knows I love working with Nutter Butters and she has been the lucky recipient of many a chocolate covered peanut butter cookie treat.

    This friend has fun trying to help me brainstorm ideas. Some of her suggestions are a bit wacky, but then, so is she, that's why I love her. But on more than one occasion she has helped me devise a plan for making something truly great, and although I designed these Uncle Sam Nutter Butters, she gets credit for the idea!

    Decorate Uncle Sam Nutter Butters using modeling chocolate.

    I know many of you will think these look like a lot of work, and you'd be right. But, if you work in an assembly line style, they really don't take that long to make. I used modeling chocolate to create Uncle Sam's facial features and his stars and stripes hat. If you cut all the pieces out then do the assembly they come together pretty easily.

    If you still haven't tried working with modeling chocolate, you really should give it a whirl. It's soft and pliable and easy to work with, but then it hardens up enough to stay rigid. Plus, it tastes like chocolate. What could be better?

    Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies make fun treats for your 4th of July parties.

     

    Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies

    You'll Need:

    Nutter Butter Cookies
    white confectionery coating/Candy Melts
    orange candy coloring
    dipping fork or kitchen fork
    parchment paper lined baking sheetcutting board
    powdered sugar
    white modeling chocolate, (recipe here)
    red and blue food coloring
    1 ½ inch square cookie cutter
    knife
    mini star plunger cutter
    mini candy eyes
    food use only paint brushes
    water
    food use only tweezers
    clay extruder with multi hole disc

    Before you begin, for detailed instructions of melting and coloring confectionery coating, making and coloring modeling chocolate, see my Chocolate Making Tips page.

    Instructions:

    how to color white chocolate

    Melt your white confectionery coating. If you don't have experience melting candy coating, see my Chocolate Making Tips page for instructions.

    Color the candy coating with a very small amount of orange candy coloring. You want a skin color. I should have gone just a bit darker on mine. In person the skin color on Uncle Sam's face looks great, but in pictures it's a bit too light.

    How to dip Nutter Butters in Chocolate

    Dip a your Nutter Butter Cookies in the peach candy coating. Completely cover the cookie, then lift the cookie out of the melted candy coating using a dipping fork or kitchen fork. Tap the fork on the side of the bowl a few times, allowing the excess candy coating to drip off the cookie. Set the dipped cookies on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.

    Chocolate dipped Nutter Butter Cookies

    Dip about 6 cookies, then put them in the freezer for about 5 minutes. If you make an entire tray of these dipped cookies, by the time you freeze them, the first cookies you dipped with have hardened, and will develop white streaks and spots on them.

    Modeling chocolate decorations for Uncle Sam Nutter Butters

    Dust your cutting board lightly with powdered sugar. Roll out some red, white, and blue modeling chocolate to about 1/16th of an inch thickness. Cut one square of each color for the hat. Cut the blue square in half. Cut four thin stripes and 1 wide stripe out of the white square. Cut three mini stars out of the remaining piece of white. Cut a hat brim out of red.

    Color some modeling chocolate skin color using a small amount of orange coloring. Pinch off small pieces and roll into balls for the nose. Flatten some smaller balls into discs, then cut off one edge to become ears.

    White modeling chocolate decorations for Nutter Butter Uncle Sam Cookies

    Insert some white modeling chocolate into a clay extruder fitted with a multi hole plate. Press out the spaghetti like strands of modeling chocolate. Cut off ½ inch lengths of the strands. Pinch together both ends creating the moustache, beard, and hair. Reshape as needed.

    Cut off ¼ inch pieces and create curved eyebrows.

    How to decorate cookies using modeling chocolate.

    To make Uncle Sam's hat, brush the bottom of the red square with some water. Press one piece of blue modeling chocolate so that only half of it is on the red square. This will elongate the hat into a rectangle. Brush the backsides of the white stripes with water. Press them onto the red square, creating red and white stripes. Cut off excess.

    Attach the min stars to the blue band using water, then attach the hat brim to the bottom edge of the blue band.

    Use melted confectionery coating to attach the hat to the top half of the dipped Nutter Butter Cookie. Create Uncle Sam's face, by using the melted candy coating as glue to attach two eyes, eyebrows, a nose, the moustache and beard, ears, and hair. To make the eyebrows look fuzzy, use a knife to cut along the edges of the modeling chocolate.

    Nutter Butter Uncle Sam Cookies - 4th of July Cookies

    If you are making a lot of these cookies, create all the decorative pieces then assemble them all at once, adding the hats first, then adding the facial features, and lastly adding the hair and ears.

    4th of July cookies

    Store these in an airtight container for up to several weeks. Don't refrigerate them, but be sure to keep them in a cool spot at your 4th of July party.

    Pay tribute to America this 4th of July by decorating some of these patriotic Uncle Sam Nutter Butter Cookies. These cute treats will be a get as many "oohs and ahhs" as the independence day fireworks. 

    Items used to create this project that are available on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)

     

    If you're looking for other 4th of July Recipes, click the link and explore all my other Independence Day inspired food.

    Make fun 4th of July recipes for your party or picnic. These red, white and blue desserts and appetizers will make your guests "ooh and aah."

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. Sue

      July 09, 2013 at 5:22 pm

      Nutter Butter needs to hire you as their spokesperson, Beth! These are incredible and done so perfectly!

      Reply
      • beth

        July 09, 2013 at 5:59 pm

        Oh, I sure wish they would! That would be great:)

        Reply
    2. Anonymous

      July 05, 2013 at 9:41 pm

      Beth, I think these are your best yet, but I always feel that way until I see your next project, lol I love this and I have never liked an Uncle Sam picture until now. Thanks Trish utler

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:41 pm

        Yeah, I never liked Uncle Sam too much either. He always seemed so angry. But these guys are pretty sweet looking. I'm glad you like them!

        Reply
    3. Beth Gorden

      July 05, 2013 at 10:28 am

      WOW - these are adorable!!

      Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us =) Hope to see you linked up again today. I featured this on TGIF today (http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2013/07/tgif-linky-party-83.html)

      Have a great weekend,
      Beth

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:41 pm

        Thanks for featuring these cookies on 123Homeschool2me.com. I appreciate it!

        Reply
    4. Erin

      July 03, 2013 at 2:30 pm

      These are so cute!

      Reply
    5. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      July 02, 2013 at 3:10 pm

      WOW!!! Of course you are the genius who created Uncle Sam ... you are such a talented Nutter Butter artist 🙂

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:42 pm

        Thanks, Brenda. I do love my Nutter Butters!

        Reply
    6. SensiblySara

      July 02, 2013 at 1:11 pm

      Oh how cute!! I wouldn't have the patience to make these, but they are AWESOME!

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:43 pm

        Thanks Sara. I must admit these do have quite a bit of detail to them and will take some time to replicate. I only made three which was enough to make the 4th of July party guests oooh and aaaah:)

        Reply
    7. Kim of Mo Betta

      July 02, 2013 at 10:04 am

      You are so talented! These are adorable!

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:43 pm

        Thank you, Kim:)

        Reply
    8. Maria

      June 29, 2013 at 2:55 pm

      Oh my goodness HOW ADORABLE!!!! Such a cute idea, you are so creative! Beautifully done!!!

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:43 pm

        Thank you, Maria:)

        Reply
    9. Linda V @ Bubble and Sweet

      June 29, 2013 at 10:43 am

      Wow out of Nutter Butters! They look fabulous.

      Reply
      • beth

        June 29, 2013 at 12:45 pm

        Thanks, Linda:)

        Reply
    10. Madelein - Mother of six

      June 29, 2013 at 8:07 am

      Fantastic!

      Reply
      • beth

        July 05, 2013 at 10:44 pm

        🙂 Thanks!

        Reply
    11. Kalamity Kelli

      June 29, 2013 at 3:24 am

      Oh my gosh Beth! You KNOW how I love Nutter Butters and I'm going to pin this right on my board. This is so cool!

      Reply
      • beth

        June 29, 2013 at 12:47 pm

        Thank you Kelli:)

        Reply
    12. Victoria Burke

      June 29, 2013 at 12:10 am

      It is so hard to believe that you can create Uncle Sam out of Nutter Butters. Seriously to cute and creative!

      Reply
      • beth

        June 29, 2013 at 12:46 pm

        I am of the belief that almost anything can be made out of a Nutter Butter, and I'm willing to try!!!!

        Reply
    13. Janine Eshelbrenner

      June 28, 2013 at 6:54 pm

      I can't believe those Uncle Sams started out as Nutter Butters! Too cute!

      Reply
    14. Lisa@hooplapalooza

      June 28, 2013 at 3:02 pm

      oh my! these are" frameable" and would go great with my spoons :>D

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 3:28 pm

        Lisa, I loved your spoons. I was working on this blog post when you're e-mail came in, and I saw Uncle Sam and my first thought was "oh, that is so clever!" Using spoons was a great idea, and the shapes spoons you used were perfect of Uncle Sam.

        Reply
    15. Project Denneler

      June 28, 2013 at 1:29 pm

      OH...... WOW! Those are seriously awesome Uncle Sams. Love 'em!

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 3:29 pm

        Thanks, Sandra:)

        Reply
    16. Patricia @ ButterYum

      June 28, 2013 at 5:56 am

      Look at how cute they are! And what could be more American than a peanutbutter uncle sam cookie? Love it.

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 3:29 pm

        I totally agree, peanut butter and Uncle Sam couldn't be more American! Thanks, Patricia.

        Reply
    17. sandy

      June 28, 2013 at 1:13 am

      very nice

      Reply
    18. sandy

      June 28, 2013 at 1:13 am

      those are just the cutest things very nice

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 3:30 pm

        Thank you, Sandy:)

        Reply
    19. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      June 28, 2013 at 12:59 am

      Adorable!!!!

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 1:10 am

        Thanks Jill. I posted these tonight instead of tomorrow, just so I could share them at your party tonight!

        Reply
    20. sugarswings

      June 28, 2013 at 12:57 am

      as soon as I saw the pic, I knew this had to be yours! So fun!!

      Reply
      • beth

        June 28, 2013 at 1:10 am

        You know I love my Nutter Butters!!!

        Reply

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