Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cookie Hats

Here is a fun family cookie for Thanksgiving for the kids to make, and so easy: Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cookie Hats.

Not only are they easy to make, but they are also sure delicious using these fudge-striped cookies and peanut butter cups.

They will love making these candy-topped cookies with decorative frosting. Check out the video for some tips and see how easy these are to make.

The cookies even make a fun little centerpiece on the table with such a festive, colorful look.

Have fun! They taste great and are so easy! The Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cookie Hats Tutorial is a fun cookie for the holiday, and you may also like to try making Girl Scout Samoas, but without the caramel, similar to fudge stripes.

Scroll down to the printable instructions for this fun family cookie project for the holiday.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• You can use your favorite cookies for the base of the hat, any available brand.
• Tint the frosting, and even different candies for decoration!
• These no-bake cookies are made with just 4 ingredients that you can get from your local supermarket or dollar store.
• They’re simple to make: frost a cookie, put a mini peanut butter cup on top, and add candy!
• This one is so easy and fun, they just love to make them as fast as they eat them!
• The cookies are store-bought, or you can make my Girl Scout Samoas cookies without the coconut topping and just the cookie base.
• We have made cute festive food art you may also like to try: doll cakes, Santa cookies. These cookies make lasting memories with them and are a fun family project.

Ingredients You Need to Have

1. canned frosting
2. unwrapped miniature peanut butter cups
3. fudge striped cookies
4. colorful sugars and candies
5. food coloring

Additions and Suggestions

1. use any tinted frosting for the rim add mini M&M's or tiny pieces of bubblegum for the buckle
2. for a colorful sparkle, add colorful sugars on the rim of the hat
3. turn the cookie over for the stripe effect and add a ruffle around the candy for a girl-style hat
4. decorate the top of cakes or cupcakes with these hats for a festive dessert
5. for Halloween, try making my Witches Hats
6. for St. Patrick's Day use a Rolo candy, frost the rolo and the cookie with green frosting

Try Some Other Fun Foods To Make:

Best Halloween Ideas


Santa Nutter Butters


Doll Cakes


Christmas Ice Cream Cone Trees


Graham Cracker Christmas House


Ice cream cone Easter Baskets


Tropical Beach Cake


Jello Tropical Cups

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Thanksgiving Treats

Not only are these delicious fun treats to make, but they are also so festive.


These Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cookie Hats, are so much fun on a cookie tray, topping cakes or cupcakes, or just around a table centerpiece on a tray.


The cookies are pretty and easy to make for the kids and the young at heart.


The kids love to make these and it's such a fun memory to make with them!


Of course, the peanut butter cups are always a big hit and the first thing they eat, enjoy.

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Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cookie Hats

Yield: 18

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Prep time: 10 MinTotal time: 10 Min

This is a fun project for Thanksgiving making Pilgrim Hats out of store-bought ingredients and super easy for the kids to make. They also make a great holiday centerpiece for the table.

Ingredients

• Here's what you need to get: 
• 1 bag of unwrapped miniature peanut butter cups, around 18 in a package
• 1 package fudge striped cookies 
• canned frosting or use homemade frosting 
• food coloring red, yellow to make orange
• wax paper to set them on
• Note: candies for the hats and colored sugars are optional; you can make them with frosting and pipe them on with frosting and a pastry bag filled with a round tip.

Instructions

1. Unwrap the candy.
2. Place the cookies flat side up.
3. Place a dab of frosting in the middle of the candy, then place the peanut butter cup on top of the cookie.
4. Pipe yellow frosting around the rim of the hat and decorate with a little orange rectangle, or use colorful candies for the middles in any color.
5. Frosting:
6. 2 to 3 cups of powdered sugar
7. water just a few teaspoons
8. 1 tablespoon of vegetable shortening, any brand
9. food coloring, red and yellow to make orange
10. In a small bowl, add about 2 cups of powdered sugar.
11. Use a few drops of yellow food coloring.
12. A few teaspoons of water and 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening (like Crisco). Mix until smooth and still thick.
13. Add more powdered sugar if it's runny.
14. Needs to be thick and hold the hat on top of the cookies.
15. In another bowl, make the same recipe above.
16. For the orange, mix 1 drop of red with 3 drops of yellow.
17. Follow the same procedure.
18. Place inside a lunch-size plastic baggie, cut the end off where it points.
19. Add frosting to the baggie.
20. Proceed with decorating the cookie hats.

Calories

75.65

Fat (grams)

3.28

Sat. Fat (grams)

1.29

Carbs (grams)

11.48

Fiber (grams)

0.44

Net carbs

11.04

Sugar (grams)

8.71

Protein (grams)

0.69

Sodium (milligrams)

41.87

Cholesterol (grams)

2.55

https://www.whatscookinitalianstylecuisine.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-pilgrim-cookie-hats.html

Pilgrim Hats made with fudge stripe cookies, Peanut butter Pilgrim Hats, Holiday Hats, Thanksgiving Pilgram Hats, Semi Homemade cookies

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Don't Forget to Try Some Other Fun Holiday Food Art Recipes!

Christmas Ice Cream Cone Trees

Graham Cracker Christmas House

Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2013. It was edited and re-published in 2020.