These tasty Pilgrim Hats are easy breezy and
really fun to make!
really fun to make!
While the kids are gathering the ingredients and making the treats why
not take turns telling stories about the Pilgrims. It doesn’t matter if the
little ones don’t get the history just perfect… it’s their perceptions of what
Pilgrims and Thanksgiving means to them that’s important and precious!
Have some fun with these…
Ingredients you’ll need:
Miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Oreo cookies
Candy corn or yellow jelly bean
Yellow or orange fruit roll-up
Chocolate frosting (a store bought can will work just dandy)
Decide how many Pilgrim Hats you want to make and then have
the kids take the foil off of the peanut butter cups and set aside.
Separate the two halves of the Oreo cookies… you’ll need
only the half without the icing so you can be gobbling up the other halves
while you work! Or, set them aside and read the PS for a later project.
Take a small spoon of frosting and place it in the center of
the plain chocolate cookie half.
Turn the peanut butter cup upside down and stick it in the
center of the cookie in the dab of frosting. Then, frost over the entire cookie
and the peanut butter cup so chocolate frosting covers all and is smooth.
Slice a thin strip of the fruit roll-up and wrap it around
the base of the peanut butter cup, forming a band around the Pilgrim Hat. I
think it’s more likely that you have some candy corn around rather than yellow
jelly beans… so slice off the yellow part of the candy corn and dip it into the
frosting. Stick the yellow slice onto the band of the hat, forming the buckle.
These are so cute displayed on a platter for a special Thanksgiving
treat for the kids with some hot chocolate.
Having fun in the kitchen with kids,
Having fun in the kitchen with kids,
Jan McCracken, Culinary Coach
