Snowy Chocolate Pinecones #Christmas #cookies

SNOWY CHOCOLATE PINECONES 

Some age ago, while action my nieces on a immature nature accomplishment, I recollect watching as my youngest niece picked up a pinecone and reliable to eat it. I can only imagine how splenetic the scales were on her tiny striker! Here's an purpose for a pinecone snack that's sure to sort nosy tastebuds happy.

Prefab with dry poaceae and a tike butter combining, it's part-healthy, part-sweet, and 100% fun. It's a enthusiastic nonpoisonous craftiness for the kids to piddle this winter when the hoodwink arrives and cabin pyrexia sets in. No hot required-just mix and join.

And piece they're a cunning snack for kids, these brown pinecones also examine real stylish and deluxe at a season wedding acquiring or remaining snow-themed event. Fuss Nature never tasted so treacly.

Ingredients

• 3 cups Chex Chocolate cereal or comparable (I used Chocolate Fiber One cereal)
• 6 pretzel sticks (I used the thicker dipping sticks)
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread)
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar

How To Make : 

1. Mix the peanut butter, Nutella, butter, and powdered sugar in a bowl.
2. Take a pretzel stick and mold some of the peanut butter mixture around it, forming a slight cone shape.
3. Holding it steady by using the tip of the pretzel as a handle, start inserting pieces of cereal into the peanut butter mixture in a symmetrical pattern around the stick. Add more cereal pieces, staggering them as you move upward, until you get near the top.
4. Cut several cereal pieces into triangles and add those to the top (most pinecone scales get smaller toward the end.)
5. If your pinecone is getting too tall (like mine were), cut off the top of the pretzel and add a dollop of peanut butter mixture to cover it. Insert a few more triangle pieces of cereal into the top of the pinecone.
6. For a “snowy” effect, dust the pinecone with powdered sugar.

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