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Hamburger Cookies Recipe

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Just like Darlene Markel's Caramel Apple Bites (see recipe finder), Pat Carter shares a sweet treat children can help create. "My daughters and I form an assembly line to put these 'sandwich' cookies together," she reveals from Clearwater, Florida. "We have lots of fun, and the cookies taste great."

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Hamburger Cookies Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 20 min.

Yield: 20 Servings

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Ingredients

1/2 cup vanilla frosting
Red and green liquid or paste food coloring
1 cup flaked coconut
80 vanilla wafers (about 12 ounces)
40 chocolate-coated mint cookies (about 12 ounces)

Directions

Divide frosting into two bowls; add red food coloring to one bowl. Place coconut in a resealable plastic bag; add green food coloring and shake to coat.
Frost the bottoms of 40 vanilla wafers with white frosting; set aside. Frost the bottoms of remaining wafers with red frosting. Sprinkle coconut over red frosting; top with a chocolate cookie. Place white-frosted wafers, frosting side down, on top of cookies. Squeeze wafers together, forming sandwich cookies, and invert. Yield: 40 cookies.

Originally published as Hamburger Cookies in Country Woman September/October 1997, p10

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