Happy November!
Now that Halloween is over, it is time to mourn the loss of the month of candy and sweets. Or is it? Not so fast−November is also a huge month for food, and it’s time to celebrate it! Here are 3 examples of quick and easy Thanksgiving treats you can make right in your dorm or apartment’s kitchen:
1.) Scarecrow Cookies
These adorable cookies only need a few things, which are easily found around campus. You’ll need cookies (about 2 ½ inches in diameter), white frosting, sugar wafers, candy corn, mini chocolate chips, bran cereal and chocolate sprinkles.
Frost the top of each cookie, cut a sugar wafer in half, and add a drop of frosting to the top edge of the cookie and create a hat for the scarecrow. Add candy corn and chocolate chips for facial features of the scarecrow and add cereal around the hat for hair.
2.) Oversized Pumpkin Sugar Cookie
You’ll need ⅔ of 16.5-ounce roll of refrigerated sugar cookie dough, ¾ cup orange frosting, halved pecans and whipped cream. Heat the oven to 350°. Lightly dust a sheet of parchment paper and a rolling pin with flour. On the paper, roll out the dough into a 9.5- to 10-inch circle. To make the dough a circle, place a 9-inch pie pan on top and trim away the dough’s edges. Transfer the round dough, on the paper, to a cookie sheet and bake it until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes (do not over bake). Let it cool 1 minute, then carefully transfer it, still on the paper, to a rack to cool completely. Cover the cookie to its edges with the frosting and press the pecan pieces in place to form the crust. Slice the cookie as you would a pie and serve with whipped cream.
3.) Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats
You’ll need 24 chocolate-striped short bread cookies, 12-ounce package of chocolate chips, 24 marshmallows tube of yellow decorators’ frosting and plenty of toothpick. Set the cookies stripes down on a wax paper-covered tray, spacing them well apart. Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave. One at a time, stick a wooden toothpick into a marshmallow, dip the marshmallow into the melted chocolate, and promptly center it atop a cookie. Using a second toothpick, lightly hold down the marshmallow and carefully pull out the first toothpick. Chill the hats until the chocolate sets, then pipe a yellow frosting buckle on the front of each hat.