Woo-hoo! Check out the cookie master -- or maybe I should say, the cookie monster!!During Thanksgiving vacation, my nephew Zack and I made a "project", as he calls it. Comemmorating that first Thanksgiving, we made pilgrim hats. Zack said that it was really fun.
We'd like to share with you how we did this in case you'd like to do it too! It's quite simple. Oh -- and it's very fun. Ya' can't forget the fun! Lots'a fun!!
Aunt Laura and Zack
Above is a close up of the finished pilgrim's hat. We started by washing hands. Do NOT forget to do that!! You don't want to spread any germies! Then we took a shortbread fudge stripe cookie. You lay it on your work surface up-side down.
We used the small end of a melon baller to get the right amount of vanilla icing. Since we have a baby in the house, the baby spoon was what worked best to scrape the icing onto the hole of the cookie. (We used a cookie sheet with foil as our work surface.)
Unwrap a miniature peanut butter cup and turn it up-side down. Press into the center of the icing so that a small ring of icing squeezes out around the peanut butter cup.
Then we used Reese's pieces for the buckle. We separated the yellow ones to use and surprisingly, everyone was very accommodating in keeping the orange and black ones from going to waste. Actually, no surprise, right?!
The finished hats. Aren't they cute? We refrigerated the hats when they were finished to set the icing and firm up the chocolate. The chocolate gets soft from handling. Zack took these home so that he could take them to school to share with his friends. When I talked last to Zack's mommy on the phone, she said that Zack thinks they are so good that he'll just take one in for Mrs. White (his teacher) and eat the rest!
Now you can try!
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