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http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/B...chool-Cupcakes

Thanks. DGD loved cupcakes.

Thanks! Cupcakes are allover right now, arent they?

Thanks for sharing. I think everything from Taste of Home is good.

For health reasons, the Texas school district my daughter
teaches in forbid junk foods. Veggies and fruit are allowed.
We all know what kids think of that for dessert in public places.

She could only use a recipe I sent her at private parties. It is the darling Cheese Burger cookie recipe. They look like tiny
White Castle Cheese Burgers.



This came from Joanne Fluke's book==Cream Puff Murder, which has so many lovely recipes in it that are truly unique!!
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Kids will love these!! And big kids also love them.

Don't bother with heating the oven, you won't need it.

Cheeseburger Mini-Cookies

For the buns
12 ounce box vanilla wafers (I use Nilla Wafers)

For the hamburger patties
about 3 dozen slightly larger round chocolate-covered cookies (I used 2 packages of Keebler Fudge Shoppe Caramel Filled Cookies==18 cookies to the box.

For the shredded lettuce
1 half cup shredded coconut (pack it down tightly
before measuring it )
green food coloring

For the cheese and the ketchup
1/2 cup salted butter (1 stick) at room temp
1/4 cup milk (2 ounces)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
16 ounces (1 pound) box powdered sugar (this is about
3 1/2 cups)
Yellow food coloring
Red food coloring

For the top of the bun
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1 egg white

Prepare your :"shredded lettuce" first. It will take time to air dry. Dump your coconut into a large Ziploc bag. Hold the bag open and drop in 3 drops of green food coloring. Close it tightly and shake, shake and shake it till the color is evenly distributed. Then if it is not quite the color of lettuce, add more green food coloring a few drops at a time until you decide it is the color of lettuce.

Line a cookie sheet with wax paper and dump the coconut onto it. Spread it out with a spoon as evenly as possible. Let it sit out on the counter till dry, stirring it ever so often.

Once the coconut is dry, it is time to assemble your cookies.

Line another cookie sheet with wax paper. Lay out 40 vanilla wafers, rounded side up.

Frosting
In the bowl of a stand mixer, or simply in a medium-size mixing bowl, combine the milk,butter, vanilla extract and powdered sugar, If you're using a stand mixer, beat on LOW for 2 minutes. If you're using a handheld mixer, beat on LOW for 3 minutes. If you're mixing by hand, use a wooden spoon and beat like crazy for 4 minutes, or until the frosting is smooth, with no lumps.

Divide the frosting into 2 bowls.

Into the one put 3 drops of yellow food coloring. Mix this well, and if it is not a bright yellow, add more food coloring. This will be your "melting cheese" on the cheeseburgers.

In the other bowl add the red food coloring until it is the color of "Ketchup".

With a rubber spatula put a layer of RED frosting on each rounded side of the wafers.
Pile it up around the rims of the wafers so it will form the flat beds for the "hamburgers."

Place a chocolate-covered cookie, face up, on top of the red frosting on the wafer. Press the chocolate-covered cookie down slightly so it'll stick to the red frosting.

Frost the top of the chocolate-covered cookie with the YELLOW frosting. Use just a bit too much so it'll drip over the sides of the "hamburger" like melted cheese.

Sprinkle on some of the green coconut "lettuce." It'll look more realistic if you let a few strands stick out on the sides.

Clamp on the second vanilla wafer, rounded side up. Now your Mini Cheeseburger Cookie is complete, except for the sesame seeds on the bun.

Repeat until you run out of "buns" or "hamburgers."

Whip up the egg white in a small bowl. Use a pastry brush to brush the tops of the vanilla wafers. Sprinkle on a few sesame seeds, and you're finished.

Let the cookies dry thoroughly. Once dry, they will keep just fine in a loosely covered container until it's time to serve them.

(I have no idea of how they will freeze, but my guess is that they will do that quite well.)

I used to make these with the Fudge Shoppe Caramel filled cookies but I can't find them anymore at Publix. I changed to the peanut butter ones but they weren't very good. Now, I can't find either cookie. Does anyone know what happened to them??

Thanks for sharing.