Reindeer on a Stick! Egg, Dairy and Gluten FREE

Reindeer on a Stick!

Ok, I totally borrowed this from stumble but tweaked it a little. This is an easy recipe that you can make any little guy out of. It's almost good for your diet as well!

Lay out wax paper on your cookie sheet

Put a row of mini pretzels about 4 inches apart (the recipe from stumble stated two pretzels but that is really too much for a little kids mouth). You should be able to lie 7 in a row, 2 rows per cookie sheet.

Melt your bag of chocolate chips in a slow melter,  double broiler, or microwave the chips to melt it. If you melt it the microwave make sure to flip your bag every 30 seconds so it doesn't burn.

SEMI SWEET CHIPS DO NOT MELT - DO NOT USE THESE (painful experience that just frustrates you and you just end up wanting to eat the chips instead of dealing with the issue)

Prepare the jumbo marshmallows by using lollipop sticks or cut the tips off of the wooden sticks for kabobs (that's what we did).  Stick the lollipop or kabob sticks in the middle of the marshmallow.  Dip your marshmallow stick in the chocolate and rotate.  Tap the stick on the pan to get the excess chocolate off.  Place the stick on the pretzel... repeat until you run out of room.  

Once your pan is full stick it in the fridge for 10 minutes. While your waiting for your chocolate to cool you can prepare your icing for the eyes.  The stumble recipe indicated you could make the white portion of the eyes and then the black part of the eye, but really what kid pays attention to the color of the eye before eating it? I just used the icing I had left over for previous projects. 

I made icing with 1 cup powdered sugar, ¼ cup shortening, 1 tbs of corn syrup, 1 tbs vanilla, and a smidge of water to thin the icing out. Add food coloring for whatever color eyes you want.

When you pull the reindeer out, make a small dot or letter U for eyes.  Put a dot on the front for the nose.  You can use candy for the nose and the icing will hold it on tight.  A hint to make the nose stay where you want... make sure to put your reindeer on a cooling rack so gravity will help you.  I used sixlets and smarties for the reindeer noses.. pretty cute and a huge hit with the kiddos. Took a very small amount of time to make!