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Dark Chocolate Nutter Butter Penguins with Marshmallow Bellies
Prep Time
30 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Nutter Butter Cookies dipped in dark chocolate decorated with marshmallows and candies to look like cute penguins.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: christmas desserts, decorated nutter butters, nutter butter penguins
Servings: 6
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 6 Nutter Butter Cookies
  • 6 Tootsie Rolls
  • 3 marshmallows
  • 3 Circus Peanuts OR orange taffy orange Starburst Fruit Chews, orange Tootsie Rolls
  • 12 candy eyes
  • 12 ounces melted and tempered dark chocolate OR melted dark confectionery coating/candy melts
Instructions
  1. Cut a thin slice from each round end of your marshmallows.
  2. Unwrap Tootsie Rolls and smash them flat.
  3. Use kitchen shears or a knife to cut wings from the Tootsie Rolls.
  4. Cut off small pieces of your Circus Peanut or other orange candy, and shape into triangular beaks, and tear drop shaped feet.
  5. Dip one Nutter Butter Cookie in the melted and tempered dark chocolate or melted confectionery coating.
  6. Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  7. Immediately attach all your candy decorations while the chocolate is still wet.
  8. Attach two Tootsie Roll wings, one candy beak, two candy feet, one marshmallow belly, and two candy eyes.
  9. Chill in the refrigerator if using pure chocolate and in the freezer if using candy melts for about 5 minutes until the chocolate hardens.