Getting ready for a party on the 4th and decided to try out some new festive cookie recipes to bring to the potluck.
Hot Dog Cookies
recipe from serious eats
These were too cute not to try! I made them much smaller than recommended which seems to have worked out well. Hot dogs are only about 1" long. For the 'mustard' I did a simple powdered sugar, water frosting with yellow food coloring.
Red White &Blue Cake Balls
I used the same cake recipe I used for rainbow cake balls to make these but I decided not to wrap the cake in brownies and I coated them in semi sweet chocolate chips.
Carmel Brownie Bites
I used this brownie recipe
Then to make them look festive I found inspiration here. I cut them in to bites and coated them with candy melts.
Pinwheel Cookies
I came across these on Just A Taste. I should have followed some of the instructions a little more closely… instead of rolling the dough between wax paper I used flour which then made it hard to roll the dough and get it to stick together as a pinwheel. I also found that they needed to cook for about 20 minutes, twice the recommended time.
Nothing beats roasting marshmallows over the campfire but these are a close second! I came across this recipe and put my own twist on it, partly because the recipe requires a microwave which I do not have.
Ingredients: graham crackers, marshmallow fluff, nutella, milk chocolate chips, red candy melts
I split the graham crackers into quarters along their existing lines, I put fluff on one side and nutella on the other then coated half of it in milk chocolate and half in candy melts
These are a Martha Stewart recipe
These were a lot of fun to decorate but it was time consuming.
For the icing I used powdered sugar and water. I tried store bought gel frosting which looked cool but was sticky and made it hard to stack and store the cookies. The above cookies were decorated with gel icing. I also tried decorating some with food colored powder sugar icing, pictured below.
