With their crunchy cereal exteriors and creamy peanut-butter-and-chocolate-hazelnut centers, these wintery pinecones are a delicious and easy way to serve your guests adorable holiday treats — without turning on your oven.
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 1 hr |
| Active: | 30 min |
| Yield: | 12 pinecones |
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, plus more for dusting
- 12 pretzel sticks
- 3 cups cinnamon or chocolate puffed cereal, such as Cinnamon Puffins
Instructions
- Mix the chocolate-hazelnut spread, peanut butter and melted butter in a medium bowl. Stir in the confectioners’ sugar until completely combined.
- Form 1 heaping tablespoon of the peanut butter mixture into a cone around a pretzel stick and place on a serving platter. Press individual cereal pieces into the cone in upward-angled concentric circles, starting at the bottom and moving up and around the cone. Repeat with the remaining peanut butter mixture, pretzel sticks and cereal. Dust the cereal-covered cones with confectioners’ sugar. Refrigerate until the cones remove easily from the platter, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 12 servings |
| Calories | 260 |
| Total Fat | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 47 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 18 g |
| Sugar | 16 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Sodium | 83 mg |
Reviews
I tried. I used Cinnamon Toast Crunch and that cereal was the right look. My problem was the hazelnut spread. At almost $10 a jar, the 8 pinecones I managed to get to stay together were very expensive. I was only able to find a keto-friendly brand of spread that I found out tasted awful. Like licking a package of pure Stevia. ( Persisted, thinking that I had gotten this far and even if we didn’t eat them they might be cute on the cookie platters.) The spread wouldn’t stay in a cone shape around the pretzel no matter how long it was refrigerated. Eventually, some pinecones slunk down and looked like roses. Marked this recipe down as a “never again”. Think I’ll try the pinecones made with brownie batter, almond slivers and covered with chocolate….. next year.
I don’t see how to use the pretzel sticks.
They’re good. Like muddie buddies, just a tad different recipe and in a cute shape.
How does this get 3 1/2 stars with NO reviews?