These delicious Penguin Cookies are the perfect treat for your next holiday party or get-together. Made with Town House Crackers and few other goodies, these no bake Christmas cookies need just 6 ingredients, are super simple to make and will be loved by everyone!
No Bake Penguin Cookies
We live in wonderful neighborhood, filled with lots of kids and great people we now consider our closest friends. Getting together with our neighbors during the holiday season is something I’m really looking forward to.
I’ve decided to have a casual, fun holiday party with kids and grown-ups – everyone included! These Penguin Cookies will be the perfect treat for our holiday party and something that both kids and grown-ups will love!
The ingredients you’ll need to make your Penguin Cookies:
- Townhouse Crackers – these are an oblong/oval shape, which works well for the shape of a penguin.
- Candy eyes – found at craft stores, many grocery stores cake decorating areas and Amazon.
- Orange M&M’s or Reese’s Pieces candies
- Creamy peanut butter
- Chocolate candy melts
- White candy melts
Ingredient Substitutions and Recommendations:
- Chocolate candy melts – you can also use chocolate candy quik (large block of melting chocolate) or chocolate chips. Follow the melting directions on the package.
- Peanut butter – you can use any nut butter or spread. If you would prefer to not use nut butter, or keep these nut-free, simply omit the peanut butter and dip single crackers in the chocolate.
- Crackers – instead of the crackers, you could use Nutter Butter Cookies, which are an oblong shaped peanut butter sandwich cookie. You could then eliminate the step of creating the cracker/peanut butter sandwich.
How to Assemble your Penguin Cookies:
Making these Penguin Cookies is a very simple process. In fact, this is fun no-bake project that you can do with your kids! Simply start by spreading the peanut butter on a Town House Cracker and sandwiching it with another cracker.
Repeat this process for as many cookies as you would like to make.
Decorating the Penguin Cookies:
Next, begin dipping the cracker sandwiches into the chocolate, coating the entire exterior. While the chocolate is still wet, add a white round candy melt (un-melted) for the tummy, add a couple of eyes, and add two orange candies for the feet.
Cut some orange candies in half, and then add these to make the penguin beak.
Pro-Tip: I recommend having all of your decorations ready to go, as once you dip the chocolate, it will begin to harden rather quickly.
The best way to get the decorations to stick, is to add them right away will the chocolate is still wet. Working in groups of 4-5 cookies seemed to work well.
Let the chocolate set and you’ll have some adorable penguins that are the perfect treat for your next holiday party! Both kids and grown-up will love these! Don’t these little guys look adorable?!
These would also be fantastic for a Christmas break play-date, or a fun get together with all the kids the in the neighborhood!
If you loved these No-Bake Penguin Cookies, be sure to check out some of my other cookie recipes that are great for Christmas cookie baking:
- Christmas M&M Cookies
- Reindeer Pretzels
- Rice Krispie Christmas Trees
- Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies – fantastic made with Christmas M&M’s!
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
- Chocolate Dipped Ritz Cracker Cookies
- Reese’s Pieces Cookies
- Soft & Chewy Ginger Cookies
- Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
- Peanut Butter White Chocolate Crock Pot Candy
- Chocolate Crinkles
- White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
- Vanilla Fudge Recipe
- Christmas Chocolate Bark
Watching Christmas movies? Here are a few drinks and snacks that would go perfectly with these cookies:
- Nutella Hot Chocolate
- Spiked White Hot Chocolate
- Amaretto Hot Chocolate
- Melted Snowman Popcorn Snack Mix
- Peppermint Crunch Fudge at Real Housemoms
- Peanut Butter Chex Party Mix
Here’s the recipe for these fun to make, delicious Penguin Cookies:
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Penguin Cookies
Equipment
- Parchment Paper Sheets These pre-cut parchment paper sheets are super convenient and the perfect size for lining a loaf pan.
- Glass Mixing Bowls Ideal for cooking and baking, and great for anything that needs to go into a microwave.
Ingredients
- 24 Town House Crackers
- creamy peanut butter about 1 tsp. per cookie
- 1 (16 oz. pkg.) chocolate candy coating
- 12 white chocolate candy melt wafers
- orange candy coated peanut butter candies 2 candies for feet and 1/2 candy for beak
- candy eyes 2 per cookie
Instructions
- Lay out a couple large sheets of waxed paper on your work surface. Prepare your decorations – its helpful to place each decoration in small bowls so they are ready to go when you need them. The chocolate will cool and harden within minutes, so you’ll need everything at your fingertips to work quickly.
- Begin making the cracker sandwiches by spreading one cracker with 1 tsp. of peanut butter. Place the second cracker on top to create a sandwich. Repeat this process for all of your cookies.
- Next, melt the chocolate candy coating according to package directions. Dip each of the cracker sandwiches into the chocolate coating, covering the entire outer surface. Place on the waxed paper. While the chocolate is still wet, place a white chocolate wafer on the bottom half of the cookie for the penguin tummy. Place two orange candies at the bottom for the feet, two eyes at the top, and a 1/2 orange candy for the beak.
- Let the chocolate cool and set completely before handling. Keep cookies at room temperature or freeze.
Notes
Nutrition
holy cow-i mean penguin, these cookies are adorable!!! :>D
Loooove! Pinned 🙂
Wow! These look amazing and I bet they taste just as good as they look! #client
How adorable!! Thank you for such a cute idea! I will be adding these to my cookie trays for sure.
These are SO incredibly adorable! I collected penguin EVERYTHING as a kid so they have a special place in my heart. I love these are they’re so easy!!
I LOVE COOKIES. THOSE SURE LOOK SO GOOD.
These are so cute, I’m going to make them for my favorite Uncle he loves penguin and peanut butter. But me not so much on the peanut butter. I was thinking of using Lady Fingers they have the shape and are already a sandwich cookies. I’ll just change the nose color on the non peanut butter ones. Thank you for the cute idea, Kimberlee
Lady fingers would be a great idea! Enjoy! ~Erin
where do you get the candy for the eyes with dots
I got mine in the baking section (near the sprinkles and cake decorations) at Target. Michaels also carries candy eyes like these.
Tic Tac mints (orange of course!) would make cute beaks as well…
That’s a great idea, Kerrinda! ~Erin
Can’t wait to try these. I’m sure the grand kids will love them!!
easy to do fun to eat
unieque idea
I would use Nutter Butter cookies in place of the crackers
Definitely, Nutter Butters would be great. Enjoy!
I couldn’t believe how delicious these are! I had no problem getting the ingredients and they turned out wonderfully! Thank you for the idea!!!
Yeahhhh!! So glad you enjoyed! Happy New Year, Estela!
Hi Erin – these penguins are almost too cute to eat! Popping over from Sadie Seasongoods and pinning; hope you’re having a happy weekend and enjoy a very merry season!
any suggestions for what you can use in place of peanut butter……our grand daughter is allergic to peanuts?
What about slightly warmed marshmallow fluff so it is spreadable? (possibly a little cream cheese mixed in?) Or even some type of canned frosting? Some type of soft caramel? (Possibly homemade) you could always put the sandwiched crackers into the fridge to help the caramel reset a bit
Absolutely!! I just did another batch last week with dulce de leche caramel, which was wonderful! I love the idea of the frosting. You could also combine creamy peanut butter with the marshmallow fluff to make a peanut butter fluff filling. Oh the possibilities!! 😉 Enjoy!
These are so cute! I found these on Melt in Your Mouth Monday. Pinned!
These are just so cute! Good job! 🙂
These are so freakin’ cute! 🙂
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How cute! I bet the salty sweet combination with these is delicious! We’d love to have you share this at our weekly link party. Hope to see you there! http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2015/12/diy-kitchen-gift-ideas-and-little-bird.html
These cookies are just adorable!
These penguins are just too cute! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Those are absolutely adorable! Going to share them with my daughter…she loves making things like this with my nephews and nieces! So glad you shared them with us at #FoodieFriDIY…it’ll be a fun project for them over the holidays!
These cookies are just so cute! And even better when I found out there was peanut butter in the middle! I’m sure the kids will go crazy for these!
These little penguins are just so cute.
Hey, Erin! Just wanted to let you know that we loved your Penguin Cookies so much when you shared it at the #HomeMattersParty last week, we’ve FEATURED it THIS WEEK! Hope you can check it out when you get a sec. Happy Friday!!!
https://lifewithlorelai.com/2017/12/14/home-matters-linky-party-165/
~Lorelai
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My son’s birthday is coming soon!!! Have planned to celebrate this time in a unique way. He’s a pretty boy! Your Penguin Cookies ideas will help me to do it. Will try to make some to present him! Thanks for your time and shared idea Erin! Wish my son a great birthday! 🙂
They’re SO cute!!
So much yummy stuff
Mollyx
These are great!! I love these so much, pinned them so I can have a go at making them myself
How cute! They will be one of my features this Saturday at the Snickerdoodle Link Party!
The cutest cookies ever! Hope you are having a good week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
I won 2nd place at a cookie party! Deliciously adorable and so easy to make!
Does it have to be chocolate candy coating or can I just melt some milk chocolate and dip them in that?