Dark Chocolate Nutter Butter Penguins with Marshmallow Bellies

• Bread & Baked Goods

  • 1 Tootsie rolls

• Snacks

  • 1 Nutter butter cookies

• Desserts

  • 1 Candy eyes
  • 1 Circus peanuts or orange taffy
  • 1 Marshmallows
  • 1 Melted and tempered dark chocolate or melted dark confectionery coating/candy melts

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Description

Ingredients

• Nutter Butter Cookies
• Tootsie Rolls
• marshmallows
• Circus Peanuts OR orange taffy, orange Starburst Fruit Chews, orange Tootsie Rolls
• candy eyes
• melted and tempered dark chocolate OR melted dark confectionery coating/candy melts

Directions

• Cut a thin slice from each round end of your marshmallows.
• Unwrap Tootsie Rolls and smash them flat.
• Use kitchen shears or a knife to cut wings from the Tootsie Rolls.
• Cut off small pieces of your Circus Peanut or other orange candy, and shape into triangular beaks, and tear drop shaped feet.
• Dip one Nutter Butter Cookie in the melted and tempered dark chocolate or melted confectionery coating.
• Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
• Immediately attach all your candy decorations while the chocolate is still wet.
• Attach two Tootsie Roll wings, one candy beak, two candy feet, one marshmallow belly, and two candy eyes.
• Chill in the refrigerator if using pure chocolate and in the freezer if using candy melts for about 5 minutes until the chocolate hardens.