Cinco De Mayo Tostado Cookies

Cinco De Mayo Tostado cookie

For my son's class I wanted to make a 'fun' cookie for Cinco De Mayo.  I looked online and found ideas for a sombrero cookie but I wanted to try something different so I decided to make a 'tostado' cookie.  It is a basic sugar cookie to represent the shell, chocolate covered raisins for the ground beef, cut up round sour cherry candy for tomatoes and green spaghetti licorice candy cut into small bits to be the shredded lettuce.  I was going to 'shred' almond bark to be cheese but I decided against it because it would not stick to the rest of the cookie.  I made my own chocolate covered raisins because then I could put the 'tomatoes' and 'lettuce' on right away so that when the chocolate hardened it worked as glue for all the cookie parts.  Kind of fun and unique!

Shredded Lettuce and Cut up Tomatoes

 

A bunch of my cookies all ready for the class to eat!

Diane

Cinco De Mayo Mexican Flag Sugar Cookie Lollipop

Cinco De Mayo Mexican flag lollipop cookies!

I was making basic sugar cookies and I had leftover coloured melted chocolate from my Cinco De Mayo meringues so I just decided to make a flag lollipop cookie!  The lollipop cookies are super easy to make...you just roll the dough into a ball, place a popsicle stick up in it and then when you put it on the cookie sheet you place the heel of your hand on the cookie to flatten it slightly.  Bake as usual and Voila....popsicle cookie!  I just re-melted the coloured chocolate and dipped each side of the 'flag' in the proper colour.  Another super simple but festive snack!

Diane

Cinco De Mayo Mexican Flag Meringue Snacks

Mexican flag meringue!

No, I am not Mexican, I am not even American, but my kids are and we celebrate Cinco De Mayo in our area so I wanted to make a fun snack for the day.  I tried to make macaroons but they really ended up to be meringues with some coconut in them.  Apparently you have to pack coconut when measuring it!  At least my hubby thinks they taste good:)  I chose these cookies because they are actually white and would work perfect for the white stripe in the middle of the flag.  I then had coloured white chocolate to dip each side of the meringue in so that the final meringue represents a Mexican flag.  Pretty simple to make and festive!

Diane