Holiday cookies and Eggnog cheesecake dip

Delicious and easy holiday cookies decorations and eggnog cheesecake dip that goes well with your holiday cookie plate.

Holidays are my favorite time of year when it comes to baking and cooking. I bake and cook almost every day, but during holidays I will go some to extra lengths to make some cute treats for my little ones.

They help sometimes, but most of the time it is messing up the project. This time, I skipped the baking part, thanks to Pepperidge Farm.

I decided only to decorate and used Pepperidge Farm cookies to make these holiday cookies. I also made an eggnog cheesecake dip to go with the cookie platter.

Whenever we to go to Target my favorite grocery store,  I usually grab a packet of Pepperidge Farm® Milano® cookies, so I decided to play with the Holiday collection of Pepperidge Farm® Milano® to make some cute treats.

You can get  Pepperidge Farm®  cookies from your local Target Store. I made Santa cookies and Reindeer cookies with them.

It is really simple. Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies come in three different flavors namely Toasted Marshmallow, Candy Cane, and Double Chocolate.

You can use your favorite flavors to make these cookies. Make sure to get some candy coating, holiday sprinkles, colored sugar, chocolate chips, M&M, even a bag of mini pretzels that is going to be your reindeer’s antlers.

As you know for any household, the holidays can be a stressful time – especially when it comes to party planning or your desire to make every day feel special.

These are fun and easy cookie decorating ideas which will be cute and makes the holidays even more memorable

.I usually see Pepperidge Farm® Pirouettes cookies as an outer layer covering of cakes, or heels of Silhouette cupcakes.

I wanted to make a simple, and easy cookie treat with it, so I made these holly jolly cookie sticks using Pirouettes.

This will be a fun project if kids join; yes my two kids are happy to add sprinkles on candy coated pirouettes cookies.

Serve these with coffee or hot cocoa at your holiday parties and guests will rave over these crispy cookie sticks filled with vanilla cream and covered in festive holly sprinkles.

My daughter and son like Gingerbread men and Gingerbread women a lot. So every Christmas I make them.

This time, I went for an easy route only decorating those as well using the Pepperidge Farm® Ginger Family. I made homemade royal icing using this recipe and then added a few colors and decorated the cookies.

I also made eggnog cheesecake dip to go with the cookie platter. Christmas won’t be complete if you don’t have eggnog.  For this, I made homemade eggnog that is cooked.

This dip is so delicious you can use it for dipping your favorite cookies. Hard to resist tangy cream cheese perfectly balanced with eggnog and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon.

These cookie decorations are simple, and if I can do it (without any formal training), then anybody can do it. This will bring a smile to your kid's, and guest's faces when you are organizing the party.

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Holiday cookies and Eggnog cheesecake dip

Here is the collection of easy holiday cookie decorations mad with Pepperidge Farm® cookies you can make it less effort and kid friendly. Great for you holiday table.

Prep Time30 minutes mins

Total Time45 minutes mins

Course: Dessert, Dip

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Dip Recipes, Holiday cookies, Santa cookies

Servings: 8 -9 serving

Calories: 60kcal

Ingredients

For Cookies

• 24 Pepperidge Farm® Milano® Cookies
• 12 Pepperidge Farm® Pirouettes cookies
• 12 Pepperidge Farm® Ginger Family
• 16 oz Candiquik chocolate candy coating
• 16 oz Candiquik vanilla candy coating
• 24 Chocolate chips
• 12 candy eyeballs
• 12 mini pretzels
• 24 Red M&M
• Holiday sprinkles
• Red colored sugar
• 12 marshmallows
• 2 cup royal icing and color of your choice. I used white blue and red food color

For Eggnog Cheesecake Dip

• 4- ounce cream cheese softened.
• ¼ Cup confectioner’s sugar
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoon eggnog
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅛ teaspoon rum extract

Instructions

• First, melt the vanilla and chocolate candy coating according to manufacturer's instruction and set aside.
• Line the cookie sheet with parchment and set aside.

For Santa cookies

• First, dip one end of Pepperidge Farm® Milano® cookies with white candy coating
• And using spoon give some rough structure to resemble the Santa’s beard. Set aside in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
• Then coat the other end of cookies in white candy coating leaving about 2-inch space in the center. Sprinkle the red sugar on the head and in one corner attach a marshmallow to resemble Santa’s hat.
• Then in the center place two chocolate chips for eyes and a red M&M for the nose. Once again keep it in the refrigerator to let the candy coating set completely.

For Reindeer Cookies

• Coat Pepperidge Farm® Milano® cookies with the chocolate candy coating and set aside in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
• Add pretzel as antlers and red candy as the nose, gently pressing into the wet chocolate to adhere.
• Press eyeball candies for eyes. Repeat steps with remaining cookies. Refrigerate until set, about 10 minutes.

For Holly Jolly Cookies

• Use a spoon to spoon melted white chocolate candy coating onto the Pirouettes cookies.
• Leave about 1 ½-2 inches of the cookie stick with no chocolate so that you can handle the cookie sticks.
• Then place the holiday sprinkles on the candy coated sides. You serve it on a cookie platter or cover with pretzel bag and give it as the gift.

For Gingerbread Cookies

• Make royal icing and divide it into 3 parts with more white icing on one part. The other two part color with blue and red food color and set aside.
• Then using a piping bag fitted with Wilton tip. No3 pipe hand, legs, eyes using white icing and then add red and blue color for button or design in Gingerbread men, Gingerbread women and Gingerbread kids.

For Eggnog Cheesecake Dip

• Make eggnog cheesecake dip by mixing all the ingredients into a smooth consistency.

Nutrition

Calories: 60kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 11mg | Potassium: 8mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 8IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg

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Swathi

This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread.  All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.