Printable Recipe: One Sweet Cheeseburger No-Bake Cookies

One Sweet Cheeseburger No-Bake Cookies

This free Christmas cookie recipe (or anytime recipe!) is just too much fun. The best thing to do is make up all the bits and pieces ahead of time, and let the kids help assemble. Sometimes it's hard to get the burger to look just right, so if you wanta perfect presentation you might want to make these up and let the children do what they do best: eat them! Either way, they're cute and tons of fun.

Looking for a decorative "cookie" recipe for making Christmas ornaments? Try our Cinnamon Dough Ornaments recipe. You can't eat 'em, but they smell great!

Ingredients:
1 (12 oz) box vanilla wafer cookies (Nilla wafers)
1 egg white, lightly beaten
2 Tbsp. sesame seeds
1 C. sweetened shredded coconut
1 (10 oz) box Grasshopper (chocolate-covered peppermint) cookies

Frosting:
1/2 C. butter, softened
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. almond extract
2 1/2 C. powdered sugar
pinch salt
2-3 tbsp milk
food coloring (green, red, yellow)

Garnish:
½ C. toasted slivered almonds (optional)

Instructions: 1. Place vanilla wafers (don't use any cracked or chipped cookies) on two trays. Make one tray of 35-40 wafers flat-side up, and one tray of 35-40 wafers flat-side down.

2. Brush tops of round-side up wafers with egg white, then sprinkle with sesame seeds and set aside.

3. Prepare green coconut "lettuce." Place coconut a small, sealable container. Add several drops of food coloring (green). Shake well. Check for saturation of color, add more food coloring if necessary. (The greener the lettuce, the better the finished cookie will look!) Let sit.

4. Prepare frosting. Combine all frosting ingredients (except food coloring) in a medium mixing bowl, and mix with an electric mixer til smooth. The final frosting should be fairly thin, but not watery. Add milk to thin if necessary.

5. Divide prepared frosting into three parts. One bowl should contain half the frosting recipe, and the other two should contain approx. one-quarter of the recipe each.

6. Color the larger bowl of frosting to make "cheese" frosting, using red and yellow food coloring to get an orange tint to your liking.

7. Color one of the smaller bowls of frosting yellow, to make mustard. Color the other red, to make ketchup. (Bright red can be difficult to make-- try "Super Red" gel food coloring, or simply buy red pre-mixed frosting in a tube, if desired.)

8. Spoon each batch of frosting into a separate sealable plastic bag. Cut off the corner with scissors-- this will distribute frosting evenly.

9. Assemble cheeseburger cookies. Alternate three-four dabs each of ketchup and mustard on edge of flat-side of Nilla wafers (see above photo). Sprinkle with coconut lettuce. Top with burger cookie (Grasshopper or thin mint). Press gently.

10. Squeeze a nice amount of orange cheese frosting (see photo at bottom) on top of burger. Top with sesame-sprinkled wafer. Press gently.

11. Repeat for all cookies.

12. Serve with slivered toasted almond "French fries," if desired. SO cute!

13. Makes 35-40 cookies.

Tip: To make assembling this kid cookie recipe a bit easier (both for the kids and for you!), try shaving the rounded part of the bottom Nilla wafer "bun" with a butter knife before setting it on the tray. This will give you a more stable surface for assembling your burger.