Hamburger Cookies

Posted: May 31, 2010 | Author: Bakezilla | Filed under: Bakezilla | 3 Comments »

Happy Memorial Day everyone! I hope you all enjoyed a nice long weekend. I sure did.

This lovely summer weekend, I saw a cake much like this at a local bakery:

A hamburger! Totally cute, right? Okay, also a little gross-looking. But it reminded me of my first foray into cooking/baking, a 4-H project back in the 4th grade (for which I got a blue ribbon, thank-you-very-much). I don’t have kids, but when I do, this fun little project is something I would totally do with them… and if you do, please feel free to make them with yours! They’re very easy and kid-friendly, and while they’re not exactly for foodies, they’d be fun for a summer bbq, too.

Hamburger Cookies!
You will need:
A box of Nilla Wafers
A box of Thin Mints (if you can’t get the Girl Scout kind, Keebler makes a decent substitute).
Sweetened Coconut
Food Coloring
Frosting (in 4th grade, I used canned, these days, I’d probably use a simple home-made butter cream)
sanding sugar

First, put the coconut in a bowl and mix with green food coloring. This is the “lettuce” for your burgers.

As a kid, I liked to also dye the frosting red so it would be “ketchup,” but you can also leave it white and say it’s “mayonnaise.” Your call.

Spread frosting on a Nilla Wafer. Stick a Thin Mint on top. Spread more frosting on the Thin mint. Put on some coconut. Top with another frosting-spreaded Nilla Wafer. You can put sanding sugar on top for “sesame seeds.”

The finished product looks something like this:

Silly? Yes. Using lots of pre-packaged, pre-processed ingredients? Check. A great introduction into baking for children? I think so. They can do it all themselves, because there’s no oven or sharp knives, and they’re actually really cute. And while I’m a grown-up and a food blogger, I’d be happy to eat one of these today.