Prep: 30 mins

Cooking: 10 mins

Cooling: 0 mins

Yields: 24 cookies

Ingredients    

• 1 pkg. (16.5 oz.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar Dough
• 1 container (16 oz.) prepared chocolate frosting
• 48 pretzel twists pieces for antlers
• 48 NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Premier White Morsels
• 48 NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels
• 24 red gumdrops or cinnamon candies for nose

Directions

PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Press each square of dough into a triangle shape about ½-inch thick. Place on ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Upon removal from oven, carefully shape triangle with edge of knife to reshape. Cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

FROST cookies with chocolate frosting. Press two pretzels on top of frosting for antlers. Place two white morsels upside down on each cookie as eyes. Adhere mini morsel pupils to white morsels with frosting. Use gumdrops for noses.

http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/144664/Cookie-Reindeers/detail.aspx

Prep: 60 mins

Cooking: 10 mins

Cooling: 0 min

Yields: 12 snowmen

         

Ingredients

• 12 squares NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar Dough
• 12 NESTLÉ® BUTTERFINGER® or CRUNCH® Jingles, unwrapped
• 12 pretzel checkerboard snaps or mini pretzels for hat base
• 2/3 cup prepared white frosting
• 24 large marshmallows, divided
• 12 pretzel sticks for arms, broken in half
• NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels for eyes and buttons (a heaping teaspoon needed)
• 12 small orange candies or orange decorating gel for nose
• Thin-string licorice, various colors, cut into twelve, 7-inch pieces for scarves

Directions

PREPARE 12 cookies as directed on package. Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely.

TO MAKE HATS, ADHERE Jingles to pretzel snaps with frosting. Set aside.

TO MAKE SNOWMEN, INSERT 2 pretzel sticks into each side of 12 marshmallows to create arms on base of snowman. Spread a heaping teaspoon of frosting onto center of each cookie; top with snowman base. Press down lightly. Spread additional frosting on top of each snowman base. Top with remaining 12 marshmallows. Dip orange candies and mini morsels into frosting and add noses, eyes and buttons to snowmen. For scarf, tie each piece of licorice loosely around neck of snowman using frosting as glue, if necessary. Let both hats and snowmen bases stand for 20 minutes to set frosting and make snowmen stable.

PRIOR TO SERVING, adhere hats to snowman head with frosting. If snowmen need to set up more, lean them against a glass or can to set.

http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/144759/Marshmallow-Snowmen/detail.aspx