Best 10 Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies Recipes

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Indulge in the festive magic of Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies, a delightful treat that combines the flavors of Christmas with the beloved candy bar. These cookies are a perfect addition to your holiday baking repertoire, sure to bring joy and smiles to all who taste them. With a soft and chewy texture, a sweet and gooey center, and a festive appearance, these cookies are a must-have for your Christmas celebration.

The recipe includes detailed instructions for creating the perfect Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies, from preparing the dough to assembling and baking these delightful treats. Additionally, the article offers variations on the classic recipe, including a gluten-free option and a funfetti version for a colorful twist. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, this recipe provides all the necessary guidance to create these delicious and visually appealing cookies.

Make this Christmas extra special by baking a batch of Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies. They're perfect for cookie exchanges, holiday parties, or simply enjoying at home with your loved ones. With their irresistible taste and charming appearance, these cookies are sure to become a new holiday tradition.

Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!

SNICKER SURPRISE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES



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I found this recipe next to a Snickers coupon. It is absolutely fabulous. The Snickers is hidden inside the cookie so it makes for a nice surprise when you bite in. This cookie works perfectly as part of a Xmas cookie platter. If you are a Snickers fan, you are in for a real treat.

Provided by angelcakes

Categories     Dessert

Time 35m

Yield 2 dozen, 24 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
24 Snickers miniature candy bars

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 300°F.
  • In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.
  • In a large bowl, mix together butter, peanut butter, and sugars until light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs and vanilla and combine thoroughly.
  • Then mix in flour mixture.
  • Cover and chill dough 2-3 hours.
  • To form cookie, scoop a tablespoon of chilled dough and flatten.
  • Place a miniature Snickers in the center and form the dough into a ball around the Snickers.
  • Place on a greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 10-20 minutes.
  • Cool cookies on a rack.
  • Optional: Decorate cookies with powdered sugar or drizzled melted chocolate or both.

SANTA SNICKER SURPRISE COOKIES



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I found this recipe several years ago in an insert in our newspaper. I make them every year for the holidays and always get asked for the recipe. We like them better as a soft cookie, they can be baked a little longer if you like them crunchier.

Provided by Cheryl Mosley

Categories     Cookies

Time 1h30m

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 c butter, softened
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar, firmly packed
1 c peanut butter, creamy
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3 1/2 c all purpose flour, sifted
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 pkg snickers miniature candy, (13 oz)
OPTIONAL TOPPING
1/4 c powdered sugar, sifted
2 oz chocolate bark candy coating, melted

Steps:

  • 1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Beat until smooth & creamy.
  • 2. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well.
  • 3. In a separate bowl, sift flour, and combine with baking soda and salt. Add dry ingredients slowly to the peanut butter mixture. Beat until thoroughly combined.
  • 4. Cover dough and chill 3-4 hours or overnight.
  • 5. Unwrap miniature snicker candy. Set aside. Use one tablespoon of dough and form in a ball. (Each ball should be about 1.5 inches in diameter) Flatten the ball, place a candy in the center and wrap dough around it, pinching as necessary. Be sure the candy is completely covered. Roll back into a ball. Repeat with each piece of candy and dough ball. Place dough balls with candy on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Space cookies about 3 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. If you want crunchier cookies, bake about 5 min more. Allow cookies to cool about 5 minutes before removing from pan.
  • 6. Allow cookies to cool. When all cookies are baked and cooled, place them close together on waxed paper or parchment paper on a large work surface. Sprinkle with sifted powdered sugar. Melt chocolate with 1/2 tsp shortening for about a minute in microwave. Stir, add additional time if needed to thoroughly melt. Immediately drizzle chocolate over cookies. ( I use a spoon and move quickly back and forth over the cookies to create smaller drizzle marks.). Let chocolate set before storing.

SANTA SKILLET COOKIE



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This holiday decorating project is a delicious brain teaser. "Where is the Santa?" you'll ask yourself as you pipe decorative circles and triangles over the giant sugar cookie. But then, you will suddenly see them -- eight Kris Kringles! Separate the cookie into wedges for serving, or present the entire cookie and let your guests find Santa for themselves.

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories     dessert

Time 2h45m

Yield 8 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 7

Unsalted butter, for buttering the pan
One 17.5-ounce package prepared sugar cookie mix
8 ounces confectioners' sugar (about 1 cup)
1 tablespoon meringue powder (egg white powder)
Red food coloring, for decorating
Red sanding sugar, for decorating
8 edible pearl dragees, for decorating

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and generously butter an 8-inch cast iron skillet.
  • Prepare the sugar cookie dough according to the package directions. Evenly press half of the cookie dough into the prepared skillet all the way to the edge. (Reserve the remaining dough for another use.) Bake until the top just turns golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cookie comes out clean, 11 to 13 minutes. Cool in the skillet for 30 minutes. Carefully remove the cookie with a large offset spatula and place it on a cutting board.
  • Cut the cookie: Heat up a small, sharp knife by submerging it in boiling water for 3 minutes. Wipe the knife dry and gently cut the cookie into 8 wedges making sure the pieces stay together in a circle. Take it slow when cutting or the cookie could crumble. Let the cookie cool completely on the cutting board.
  • Meanwhile, make the royal icing: Whisk together the confectioners' sugar and meringue powder in a large bowl. Add 2 tablespoons water and beat with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until soft glossy peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes (you may need to add up to 1 teaspoon more water).
  • Transfer a quarter of the icing to a pastry bag fitted with a small no. 13 star pastry tip.
  • Color the remaining icing red using the food coloring. Transfer 1/4 cup of the red icing to a small bowl and add water, 1/4 teaspoon at a time, to thin it out (when you drizzle the icing with a spoon, the lines should disappear within 5 seconds). This will be your filling icing. Transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a small no. 3 round pastry tip. Transfer the remaining thick red icing to a pastry bag fitted with a small no. 4 round pastry tip.
  • Decorate the cookie: Using the thick red icing with the no. 4 tip, pipe a 2-inch circle in the center of the cookie.
  • With the same icing, pipe eight 1-inch circles overlapping the 8 cut lines, positioning them about 1 inch in from the edge of the cookie. Each cookie wedge should have 2 half circles on it.
  • Fill in all the circles with the filling icing with the no. 3 tip. Sprinkle each circle with red sanding sugar to coat. If excess sanding sugar gets on the cookie, fan it away or brush it off with a small pastry brush. (Your Santas are taking shape: the wedges in the large center circle are hats; the smaller circles are mittens.)
  • Place a dragee on the tip of each cookie wedge to form a small white circle in the middle of the red center circle. (These are the pom-poms on the Santa hats.)
  • Pipe a white icing border around the center red circle. (This will be the bottom of the hats.)
  • Working on one cookie wedge at a time and starting at the white border, pipe a white ?V? that fits snuggly between the 2 red half circles. Repeat with the remaining cookie wedges. You should have a white 8-point star surrounding the middle red circle. (You've just made 8 Santa beards.)
  • Pipe a small dot of thick red icing with the no. 4 tip in the middle of each "V." (Now each Santa has a nose.)
  • Finish by piping a white border around the edge of the cookie. (This is the bottom of each Santa's coat.)
  • Let the icing dry before serving, about 30 minutes.

SANTA'S SURPRISE COOKIES



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this has a Christmas title but these are great anytime!!! Hope you guys enjoy them as much as my 7 year old daughter does!!!

Provided by Deann Plunkett

Categories     Cookies

Time 45m

Number Of Ingredients 2

1 pkg pre-made peanut butter cookie dough
1 pkg snickers mini's candies

Steps:

  • 1. If you want to make your own cookie dough for this recipe that works well too, it will just add to your prep-time.
  • 2. Cut your cookie dough off and flatten it out in your hands take a snickers mini and place in the middle of the flattened cookie dough. Form the cookie dough into a ball around the candy bar and place on non-stick cookie sheet. Bake the cookies as directed and enjoy! Depending on how much cookie dough you use and/or, buy/make will depend on the servings you get out of it. Great to leave out on Christmas Eve as well!

SANTA'S SNICKER'S BRAND SURPRISES



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Make and share this Santa's Snicker's Brand Surprises recipe from Food.com.

Provided by mbarwick

Categories     Dessert

Time 2h10m

Yield 48 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup margarine (softened)
1 cup creamy peanut butter (reduced-fat works great)
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 (13 ounce) package Snickers miniature candy bars
1 (11 ounce) package dove brand milk chocolate candies or 1 (11 ounce) package dark chocolate, gifts

Steps:

  • Combine the butter, peanut butter,and sugars using a mixer on a medium low speed until light and fluffy.
  • Slowly add eggs and vanilla until thoroughly combined. Then mix in flower, salt, and baking soda.
  • Cover up and chill dough for 2-3 hours.
  • Remove dough from refrigerator. Divide into 1 tablespoon pieces and flatten.
  • Place a snickers brand miniature in the center of each piece of dough.
  • Form the dough in a ball around each snicker brand miniature.
  • Place each on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 325° for 10-12 minutes (baking time and temperature may need to be ajusted if using more than one tablespoon of dough per cookie).
  • Let cookies cool on baking rack or wax paper. (holiday hint: spruce up santa's surprise by drizzling melted Dove brand milk or dark chocolate gifts over the top of each cookie.

SANTA'S SURPRISE COOKIES



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Every year we have about 30 guests at our home for Christmas Eve festivities. Out of all of the different cookies I make, these are the first to disappear.-Cheryl Smith, Jamestown, Pennsylvania

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 1h5m

Yield about 6 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 packages (11-1/2 ounces each) miniature Snickers candy bars
GLAZE:
1 package (9-1/2 ounces) Dove dark chocolate candies
1 teaspoon shortening

Steps:

  • In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle., Roll dough into 1-1/4-in. balls. Press a candy bar into each; reshape balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. , Bake at 325° for 10-14 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. , In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate candies and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over cookies. Let stand until set.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 151 calories, Fat 7g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 14mg cholesterol, Sodium 75mg sodium, Carbohydrate 19g carbohydrate (12g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.

SANTA CLAUS COOKIES



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Store-bought peanut butter sandwich cookies become jolly Santas with white chocolate, colored sugar, mini chips and red-hot candies. -Mary Kaufenberg, Shakopee, Minnesota

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 45m

Yield 32 cookies.

Number Of Ingredients 6

12 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
1 package (1 pound) Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
Red colored sugar
32 vanilla or white chips
64 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
32 Red Hots candies

Steps:

  • In a microwave, melt white chocolate at 70% power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth., Dip one end of each cookie into melted chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. Place on wire racks. For Santa's hat, sprinkle red sugar on top part of chocolate. Press one vanilla chip off-center on hat for pompom; let stand until set., Dip other end of each cookie into melted chocolate for beard, leaving center of cookie uncovered. Place on wire racks. With a dab of melted chocolate, attach semisweet chips for eyes and a Red Hot for nose. Place on waxed paper until set.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 117 calories, Fat 6g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 1mg cholesterol, Sodium 59mg sodium, Carbohydrate 15g carbohydrate (10g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 2g protein.

SNICKERS COOKIES



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Though you wouldn't know by looking, you'll find a sweet surprise inside these Snickers cookies. My mother got this recipe from a fellow teacher at her school. It's a great way to dress up refrigerated cookie dough. -Kari Pease, Conconully, WA

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 20m

Yield 2 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 2

1 tube refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
24 miniature Snickers candy bars

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350°. Cut dough into 1/4-in.-thick slices. Place a candy bar on each slice and wrap dough around it. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 123 calories, Fat 5g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 6mg cholesterol, Sodium 59mg sodium, Carbohydrate 17g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 2g protein.

SANTA'S SURPRISE COOKIES



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Provided by My Food and Family

Categories     Recipes

Time 3h30m

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 cup softened butter
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 bag s assorted miniature candies (Snickers work the best)
Powdered sugar (optional)
Baking chocolate (optional)

Steps:

  • 1. Beat together butter, peanut butter and sugars with an electric mixer on low to medium speed until light and fluffy. Slowly add the eggs and vanilla, beating until well mixed. Then mix in the flour, baking soda and salt.
  • 2. Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
  • 3. Preheat oven to 325°F. Remove dough from refrigerator. Divide dough into 1-tablespoon pieces and flatten each dough piece. Unwrap enough candies for the amount of dough pieces and then place a candy in the center of each piece of dough. Form dough into a ball around each candy.
  • 4. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. If desired, sprinkle cookies with powdered sugar. (Optional: Melt baking chocolate and drizzle over the tops of the baked cookies.)

Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 g, Fat 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 g, Sodium 0 g, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 0 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 0 g

SNICKERS SURPRISE COOKIES



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Make and share this Snickers Surprise Cookies recipe from Food.com.

Provided by chef FIFI

Categories     Dessert

Time 20m

Yield 18 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 3

1 (18 ounce) package refrigerated cookie dough (peanut butter preferably)
18 Snickers miniature candy bars, unwrapped
1 (18 ounce) container vanilla frosting (optional)

Steps:

  • Preheat oven 350°F.
  • Flatten 1 tablespoon of cookie dough and place a snicker in the middle of each one.
  • Wrap the dough around the snicker making a ball out of it.
  • Line cookie sheet with parchment paper for best results.
  • Place cookie ball on cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until golden.
  • Let cookies cool for 3 minutes and then place them on baking rack.
  • *Optional* Snip off the corner of a plastic snack or sandwich ziplock bag and drizzle frosting on the top of the cookies.
  • For an extra festive flair, tint frosting with food coloring.

Tips:

  • Make sure to use cold butter for the cookies. This will help them keep their shape and prevent them from spreading too much.
  • Don't overmix the dough. Overmixing will make the cookies tough.
  • Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes before baking. This will help the cookies hold their shape and prevent them from spreading too much.
  • Bake the cookies until the edges are golden brown and the centers are set. Overbaking will make the cookies dry and crumbly.
  • Let the cookies cool completely before filling them. This will help prevent the filling from leaking out.
  • Store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.

Conclusion:

Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies are a festive and delicious holiday treat. They are perfect for cookie exchanges, holiday parties, or just enjoying at home with your family. With a few simple ingredients and a little bit of time, you can easily make these cookies at home.

These cookies are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them. The combination of chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cups, and Snickers bars is irresistible. So next time you are looking for a fun and festive holiday cookie to make, give Santa Snicker Surprise Cookies a try.

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