Hamburger Cookies

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: AllYou Recipes

Categories: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flaked coconut
  • 3 drops green liquid food coloring
  • 1 (4 1/4 oz.) tube white decorator frosting
  • 1 (12 oz.) pkg. vanilla wafers
  • 1 (10 oz.) pkg. chocolate mint flavored cookies (such as Keebler's Grasshopper Fudge Mint)
  • 1 (4 1/4oz.) tube yellow decorator frosting
  • 1 (4 1/3 oz.) tube red decorator frosting
  • 1 Tbsp. water
  • 2 tsp. light corn syrup
  • Sesame seeds

Directions

  1. Combine 1 cup flaked coconut and 4 drops food coloring in a zip-top plastic bag; seal and shake until evenly colored. Set aside.
  2. Squeeze about 1/2 tsp. white frosting onto flat side of a vanilla wafer. Top with a mint-flavored cookie, pressing gently to show frosting around edges
  3. Squeeze about 1/2 tsp. yellow frosting and 1/2 tsp. red frosting over mint-flavored cookie; sprinkle with 1 tsp. coconut. Squeeze about 1/2 tsp. of any color frosting onto flat side of a vanilla wafer. Place vanilla wafer, frosting side down, over coconut, pressing gently to show frosting around edges.
  4. Combine 1 Tbsp. water and corn syrup; brush lightly over top of cookie; sprinkle with sesame seeds and let dry.
  5. Repeat procedure with remaining ingredients.
  6. makes 3 dozen

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