Holiday Sweet Treats--No Oven Required!

Ok, it is a LONG story but I still do not have a working oven after our mini-kitchen renovation (yes, two days before Christmas--aacck!) so I had to abandon most of my usual holiday baking and think "outside the oven" for some different sweet treats to make this year.  Luckily I had made a few things about a month ago for some cookie exchanges and put them in my freezer so I do have some baked goods that I'll add to the mix of holiday offerings for gifts and during family visits.

The kids and I got busy today making lots of things that included:
Butterscotch Haystacks
Buckeye Balls
Chex Muddy Buddies (a.k.a. Puppy Chow)
Cheesy Ranch Chex Mix
Holiday Rice Krispie treats
Santa Claus Nutter Butter cookies (we didn't get to these but they sure are fun and I've made them many years in the past so I wanted to include the link here for you all!)
Snowman & Reindeer Oreo Cookies (see instructions below)
We had lots of fun and the kids could help me with all of these because there was no oven involved--an extra bonus to not have to worry about anyone getting burned!  Thank goodness for my stovetop & microwave though to help me melt some of the ingredients!  These were all really easy and quick to make so you can easily add them to your holiday offerings even at the last minute.  Enjoy!

Here are the instructions on how to make the Oreo cookie treats.

Step 1: Gather your ingredients--

one package each white chocolate and mint chocolate covered Oreos

mini-M and Ms (Blogger won't let me use the ampersand symbol)

regular M and Ms (not pictured--I forgot)

pretzel twists, cookie decorating icing (or any icing of your choosing in a pastry bag, etc. so you can squeeze it out in small bits)

mini-chocolate chips (also not pictured--oops!)

chocolate icing for mouth--you can use any kind just be sure it is NOT the decorator gel because that will not dry.

Step 2: Squeeze a tiny bit of white icing onto the cooking where the eyes and nose are to go.

Step 3: Add mini chocolate chips for eyes and orange mini M and M for "carrot" nose. (not sure why this picture is sideways--I will have to try and fix that later)

Step 4:  Add a little bigger bit of icing to sides of cookies for "earmuffs".  Add regular sized colored M and Ms to make earmuffs.

Step 5: Add chocolate icing for mouth and your done!

Reindeer cookies are basically the same but you will use the icing to "glue" on the broken pretzels to make the antlers and use a red M and M for the nose instead.

Completed reindeer cookies--cute!