Graduation Party Mortarboard Hat Cookies and Favors Recipes Sheet cakes for graduation open house parties are very expensive. And pretty though the cake may be, they usually taste like cardboard and sweetened shortening. So howabout a recipe for cheap, easy graduation hat cookies? Graduation hat cookies, also called mortarboard cookies, are the perfect graduation open house party dessert alternative to cakes. Make
enough for two per guest.
Graduation Mortarboard Cookies ingredients
small Reese's' Peanut Butter cups or any 1-inch diameter chocolate cup-type candies (mix it up with
caramel cups). Rolos work well too.
small square vanilla or chocolate covered cookies: chocolate mint cookies, Keebler Fudge Shoppe
Deluxe Grahams, Lorna Doone, Pepperidge Farm Chessmen or generic equivalent.
M&Ms in one of graduate's school colors
can of decorator cake frosting in the other school color
To Make Graduation Mortarboard Hat Cookies
Remove wrappers from peanut butter cups.
Invert peanut butter candy and "glue" cookie to base of candy with a dab of frosting.
Make frosting tassels with by using narrowest round tip on frosting can.
Place M&M on frosting tassel for center button of mortarboard hat.
Options:--Buy M&Ms and frosting in both school colors and alternate.--Frost plain square cookies in school colors.
--Add candy numbers in school year. Write numbers with frosting.--Use graduation hat cookies as edible place cards.--Use large Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or Mallo Cups and frosted graham cracker halves
