Santa Claus Cookies from Best Holiday Gatherings Taste of Home Cookbook

2 pkg (6 oz each) white baking chocolate, chopped (just melt in dish)
1 pkg Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
red colored sugar (add drops of red food coloring to white sugar)
32 vanilla or white chips (for ball on hat)
64 miniature semisweet chocolate chips (for eyes)
32 red-hot candies (for noses)

In a microwave, melt white chocolate according to package directions. Stir until smooth.

Dip one end of each cookie into melted chocolate, hold over red sugar and sprinkle on sugar for hat. Set on waxed paper to harden. Add white chocolate chip for ball on hat. Repeat with all cookies until hats are complete. Dip bottom of Santas to make the beard and set on waxed paper to harden. Dip eyes into white chocolate and attach to cookie under the rim of the hat. Dip red candy nose into white chocolate and attach to cookie under eyes. Let cookies harden before moving.

1 package of cookies makes 32 Santa cookies.