What is more fun then making Christmas cookies with your kids? How about making a NO BAKE Christmas cookie? Wouldn't your kids love making a cookie and pretending it was Reindeer Poop? I know my girls got the giggles when I said we were going to make Reindeer Poop Cookies!
Reindeer Poop Cookies
I love doing special activities with my family during the holidays. It can be hard to fit extra fun into an already busy month…but these no bake Christmas cookies don't take long so it works great for busy families.
Sometimes we will schedule an evening of cookies and crafts and make handmade ornaments too.
Ingredients Needed for Reindeer Poop Cookies
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
3 cups crispy rice cereal
1/3 cup peanut butter
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
How to Make Reindeer Poop Cookies
Put a layer of wax paper on your dining table top or kitchen counter. This is where the cookies will be cool and set up. It is nice to have this done so you aren't rushing while the cookies are setting up in the bowl, LOL!
In a saucepan place your butter, milk, cocoa powder and sugar and bring it to a boil. Boil for about a minute and stir all ingredients together.
Now turn off the heat and stir in your rice cereal, peanut butter, salt and vanilla. Mix well.
Place spoonfuls of cookie mixture onto the wax paper to cool. If you want to shape your cookies into more “poop-like” shapes you need to do that now before they totally set up!
You may want to let these sit overnight (if you can wait that long!!).
These set up FAST for me. I have had some other people say these didn't set up well…but when I made these it was QUICK!
Reindeer Poop Cookies are Great for Gifting
These cookies are great for gifting…or class parties at school! What is easier then making a batch of cookies and attaching a cute gift tag…BOOM…cute gift done!
I made some tags up to share with YOU! Just click the image below to download your own tags. Get some clear plastic gift bags and ribbon and you will be set. 
And because I know people like smaller tags…so I made one that will print off smaller tags. Click the tag image below to download this one.
More Reindeer Fun
It can be really fun to add more reindeer fun into your evening. Here are some fun ideas that will PUMP your kids up!!
- Read the book The Wild Christmas Reindeer
- Wear adorable Fun Reindeer Headbands
- Play with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer figurines
- Watch a reindeer movie you have never seen like Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
So…have you made Reindeer Poop Cookies at your house before? What are your favorite Christmas traditions? Let me know and be sure to PIN this recipe to make later!
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups rice krispies
- 1/3 cup peanut butter
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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Put a layer of wax paper on your dining table top or kitchen counter. This is where the cookies will be cool and set up.
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In a saucepan place your butter, milk, cocoa powder and sugar and bring it to a boil. Boil for about a minute and stir all ingredients together.
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Now turn off the heat and stir in your rice cereal, peanut butter, salt and vanilla. Mix well.
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Place spoonfuls of cookie mixture onto the wax paper to cool. If you want to shape your cookies into more "poop-like" shapes you need to do that now before they totally set up!
I’d like a pink hat.
Name: edye
Oh I would love the Green hat one for our little one! OH this looks like so much fun and a wonderful tradition for every year!
I would probably go with the green hat! They both are adorable tho!
i would love to win the pink hat set! thank you for the chance! – and the recipe!
Do the reindeer poop cookies need to be refrigerated? How long do they last?
These do not need to be refrigerated. I think they lasted about a week or so in a covered container.
Would love to win a Green Hat set. Thanks for the lovely chance 🙂 very generous. Wishing you Happy Holidays. Good luck all.
i am so glade to find this recipes it’s great to use with my grandkids.so good I just love it so sample to do and all 5 of my baby’s can do this together. I’m love it.Thank you.
II thought these would be fun to add to my neighbor plates, I made these for neighbor plates, went to the store got all the stuff i needed to make everything on my list get home start baking, get to these cookies, I didnt have regular cocoa powder, instead of going back to the store I thought I would just use dark cocoa powder (which i had), cant be that much different right? WRONG!!!! DO NOT Use Dark Cocoa Powder, they taste amazing, if you can get past the look, yhey really look like a pile of poop!! I had to throw them away and make them again.
Well it is good to know that Dark Cocoa Powder is NOT the way to go!! I have definitely tried some substitutions over the years that didn’t work out!! Merry Christmas
I made these today and they didn’t set up. They taste good but they are sticky and soft. I followed the recipe exactly. What happened.
Hi Carole, I honestly don’t know. Mine were setting up before I could get all the cookies even out of the bowl. I wonder if humidity has anything to do with it? I have heard that humidity can affect cooking. Sorry you had trouble! Merry Christmas.
I live in Florida and no cookies like this set up unless I put them for awhile in the fridge. After I take them out they are fine. I do think it has to do with the humidity.
There’s got to be a missing ingredient? These cookies are not setting quickly if at all
I don’t know Katy. Mine set up so quickly I barely had time to get them portioned out.
Any suggestions for omitting the peanut butter and adding in something else? Our school is nut free. Thanks
I am not sure how these ideas would work, but you could try…. Soy Nut Butter or Nutella. Not sure how they will work, but they are similar in consistency to peanut butter and I think that is the most important thing with substitutions. Hope it works….let me know!! 🙂
There is other recipes out there of no names, that not have peanut butter, I’m trying another one today for work it’s butterscotch crunch,. It’s made with butterscotch chips and corn flakes?
Hi Jamie,
I enjoy occasional sweets but not super-sweet confections. The first thing I usually do with a cookie recipe is reduce the white sugar. If I try that with the Reindeer Poop cookies (I would remove at least 1/2 cup), do you know if it will change the cookies’ ability to set up—too runny instead of sticky? If another reader has tried this, please reply. Thanks.
I followed the recipe and it came out good! Kids loved it! Thank you!
So glad Joyce!