grad cap cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 50
• 10 (4 inch) pieces pull-apart red string licorice (such as twizzlers®)
• 50 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped
• 1 cup prepared chocolate frosting
• 50 chocolate-covered graham cracker cookies
• 50 candy-coated milk chocolate pieces (such as m&m's®) (optional)

Recipe

Ready Time: 1 hr


• cut licorice candy whips into 2-inch pieces, and pull them apart to make small strings. set aside.
• place a miniature peanut butter cup upside down on a work surface; top with a dab of frosting. center a chocolate-covered graham cracker cookie the frosting to make a small cap with a mortarboard. gently press the cookie the peanut butter cup.
• place a small dab of frosting in the center of the graham cracker cookie and attach a red licorice string as a tassel, letting the tassel drape over the edge of the cookie. place a candy-coated milk chocolate piece the center of the cookie over the end of the tassel to make a button.
• repeat with remaining candies and cookies to make 50 graduation caps with tassels.