St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Cookies
These Leprechaun Cookies are a fun and easy dessert for St. Patrick’s Day!
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St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and this weekend Melinda and I worked on a simple, but super cute, treat for her to send to school for her son’s class. These St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun cookies made with Nutter Butter cookies were what we came up with and I’ve got to admit I’m kind of in love.
What You Need to Make Leprechaun Cookies:
- Chocolate chips
- Orange Candy Melts
- Green Candy Melts
- Chocolate chips
- Sprinkles – I used these orange hearts for the nose and these round white sprinkles for the eyes. If you can’t find the hearts you can also use the orange round sprinkles from the same pack for the nose. Use green shamrock sprinkles for the hat. Alternately you could use candy eyes for the eyes, but these are a little bigger so they look slightly different.
- Black food coloring
How to Make Leprechaun Cookies:
- Fill a coffee mug 2/3 full of orange candy melts. Place in microwave and cook on high for 30 seconds. Remove and stir and then place back in microwave cooking 15 seconds at a time, stirring in between, until fully melted. You may have to do this more than once depending on how many cookies you make.
- Dip one end of the Nutter Butter in orange. Use a spoon to smear some up the sides of the cookie to create sideburns for the leprechaun.
- Lay the cookie on parchment paper to let the orange candy melt harden as you do the rest of your cookies.
- When the orange candy melt beards have cooled and hardened melt your green candy melts following the steps in #1.
- Dip the other end of each cookie into the melted green candy melts to make the hat.
- Lay them on parchment paper to let them cool and harden. I
- Spoon some of the melted green candy melts into a plastic sandwich baggie and snip the tip off of a corner. Pipe on a stripe of green candy melt across the bottom of each hat to create the brim of the hat.
- Melt chocolate chips in a separate coffee mug and spoon it into another sandwich baggie, snipping off the tip of one corner. Make a stripe of brown right above the stripe of green. This was the strap on his hat.
- Drop a green shamrock sprinkle onto the chocolate stripe.
- Place a small dot of chocolate where each eye will go and place a white circle sprinkle on it. Use a toothpick to add a tiny drop of black food coloring. Don’t use too much or it will bleed. You an also use candy eyes if you prefer but they are a little bigger.
- Place a small dot of chocolate where the nose will go and place an upside down orange heart sprinkle or an orange circle sprinkle on it.
That’s it! I know it sounds like a lot of work but if you set up a little assembly line it goes pretty quickly and they taste as good as they look! It’s a really fun little treat to make for St. Patrick’s Day and the kids and their friends loved them!
So adorable! Perfect for March 17th!
These are so fun! Pinning!
These are so adorable!
These are precious. So darn cute! Very creative
These cookies are adorable! So cute – every kid will love them.
Oh my goodness…cutest St. Patrick’s Day cookies ever! They are so fun and festive! My kiddos would love these! Thank you for sharing! PINNED!
What fun cookies! They are definitely going to be a hit in any classroom!
Oh. My. Stars. Cutest cookies ever. I rip, tear, saw, drill, and paint all day. Your beautiful post makes me want to get in touch with my inner baking/creating self. Congrats. Great job.
Thanks Susie, I will bake for you if you come build some stuff for me!
These are so cute! I have seen them done as Santa’s in the past but these are even cuter!
Thanks so much! The Santa’s were my inspiration but I love these little guys 🙂
oh my!!! never thought i’d fall in love with a leprechaun but these did me in! 🙂
I am more than a little obsessed with them, lol. Thank you 🙂
Dying over these!! So cute 🙂
This is so darling! I love love this! It is too bad my little one is allergic to peanut butter because this is so darling. Thank you for the idea! Love it. Pinned.
Thank you! Maybe you could try Vienna cookies?
You are so clever! These are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!
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These are just so cute, I wouldn’t even want to eat them! Thanks for sharing!
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Love these! Pinning and sharing!
Too frickin’ cute! You are so talented! Stopping by from SITS Pin-teresting Link-Up and pinning to Pinterest!
These are so cute, I have never seen nutter butter look so good!!!
Would love to have you stop by and share i Friday Features!!!
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What an adorable idea! Thanks for sharing.
Your cookies are quite delightful and very fun, thanks for sharing! 🙂
These are adorable, Kat and Melinda! Thanks so much for linking up at Best of the Weekend!
Those are so adorable! I’ve never seen anyone do anything other than ghosts with Nutter Butters! Too cute!
These are just the cutest! Shared them on our FB page tonight – just adorable! Thanks so much for sharing them.
These are so fun and festive!
Hello!! Just wanted to let you know I will be using this in a round up (posting soon) from the Teach Me Tuesday party! Very much appreciate you linking up with us 😉
These are the cutest little Leprechaun cookies ever!!!
Thanks for sharing at Marvelous Monday on Smart Party Planning.
These are adorable! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! Thank you for linking up to The Creative Exchange. We will be featuring your project this week.
xo,
Laura
Yay! Thank you. I love those little guys!
Super cute cookies! They look so amazing. Pinned and tweeted. We love to party with you, so I hope to see you tonight at 7 pm.. Have an amazing day! Lou Lou Girls
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Yay!! thanks so much 🙂