Nutter Butter Acorns
A little chocolate and a Nutter Butter will turn into a delicious sweet treat when you make these fun Nutter Butter Acorns. The perfect fall treat for parties, lunch boxes, and snacks. The kids will love to help assemble them!
Acorn cookies are a fun fall cookie recipe and these Nutter Butter acorns are the perfect recipe to make with your small helpers. It’s a no-bake cookie recipe that’s easy to assemble with just three ingredients.
Some people call them acorn candy because they’re made with Hershey Kisses, but the crunchy mini Nutter Butters make them cookie-candy mash-up! I love to make this precious little Acorn Craft to go with this yummy snack!
For this recipe, all you do is melt chocolate chips and use the melted chocolate as glue to hold the kisses and cookies together. When I make this with my kiddos, my oldest helps me melt the chocolate in the microwave and then spread it on the kisses. The littles help press the cookies and kisses together to make the acorns. It’s really fun to do!
They’re just as easy as my Grinch kabobs and reindeer graham cracker treats. Not to mention, the chocolate peanut butter combo is a hit with kids and adults alike!
Ingredients
- Hershey Kisses – I like to use milk chocolate kisses, but there are so many options. Feel free to try almond kisses if you want nuts or other flavor to change these up.
- Chocolate Chips – Semisweet chocolate chips are great, but dark chocolate or milk chocolate will work, too.
- Mini Nutter Butters – be sure to buy the mini cookies and not the original large ones. The minis are the perfect size for the kisses.
Helpful Tools
- Baking sheets
- Parchment paper or wax paper
- Microwave-safe bowl
- Rubber spatula for stirring
- Small offset spatula for spreading
- Airtight container
How to Make Acorn Treats
Prep: Line your baking sheets with parchment or wax paper. Count out 48 chocolate chips and set them aside. You will melt the other chips and use the remaining 48 to make acorn stems.
Melt: Place chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and melt them for 30-seconds. Stir and, if they need more time, microwave them for 15 seconds longer or until the chocolate is smooth.
Assemble: Spread the flat side of each chocolate kiss with melted chocolate. Press a cookie onto the chocolate to make the acorn. For the stem, take one of the reserved chips and dip the flat side in the melted chocolate. Press it on the cookie in the center so it looks like a stem.
Set: Place the acorns on the prepared baking sheets and let them sit out at room temperature to set. If you’re in a hurry, you can also chill them in the refrigerator so they set faster.
Store: Once they are set, store them in an airtight container.
FAQ
As long as they are stored in an airtight container, they will keep for up to two weeks.
You can use dark, milk, or semisweet chocolate chips and different Hershey kisses. I like to stick to chocolate so they look like little acorns, but even using white chocolate or fun Hershey kisses with stripes would be fun!
You can use regular Nutter Butters but you will need to cut each cookie in half. They won’t be perfect circles like the minis, but it will work!
These Nutter Butter acorns are such an easy and fun way to make treats to keep or give away! They’re a little crunchy, a lot chocolatey, and impossible to resist once you’ve made them. Enjoy!
More Fall Fun!
- Fall Leaf Pom Pom Painting is so easy! You can use things already around your house for a fun activity.
- Make Easy Bird Feeders to attract fall and winter birds to your yard!
- Feeling spooky? My Dracula Dentures and Monster Rice Krispies Treats are fun recipes to make with the kiddos.
I hope you have tons of fun making adorable Nutter Butter acorn cookies!
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Nutter Butter Acorns
Ingredients
- ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 48 milk chocolate kisses
- 48 Nutter Butter Bites
Instructions
- Line two baking sheets with parchment or waxed paper, set aside.
- Remove 48 chocolate chips from the ½ c. of chocolate chips.
- Place the remaining chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, remove and stir until smooth. If they need to be microwaved longer, microwave in 15 second increments stirring in between.
- Spread the flat side of each kiss with a small amount of chocolate and attach to a cookie. You can also carefully dip the bottom of the kiss in the melted chocolate if you prefer.
- Dip the bottom of a reserved chocolate chip in melted chocolate and place on the opposite side of the cookie as a stem.
- Place on waxed or parchment lined baking sheets and let sit until set. Store in an airtight container.
