Burger Cookies Recipes

MINI BURGER COOKIES

Steps:

• In medium bowl, combine cookie mix, flour, butter, and egg until soft dough forms. Shape dough into 32 (1-inch) balls. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls 1 inch apart.
• Bake at 375° F for 10 to 12 minutes or until set and edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove to cooling rack. Cool completely.
• Spread about 1/2 teaspoon vanilla frosting on bottom of each cookie. Top 1 cookie, frosted side up with 1 peppermint pattie and 1/2 teaspoon green coconut. Pipe red and yellow icing on peppermint pattie for mustard and ketchup; top with remaining cookie, frosting side down. Repeat with remaining cookies.
• In small bowl, combine honey and water. Brush on top of each cookie; sprinkle with sesame seeds.

COPYCAT BERGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Beat butter, baking powder, salt and vanilla until combined. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour; do not overmix., Drop by 3 tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. With wet fingers, flatten each into a 3-in. circle., Bake 10 minutes or until edges start to brown. Cool on pan 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. , For icing; in a small saucepan, stir icing ingredients over low heat just until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Using a hand mixer, beat on high until mixture thickens and becomes lighter in color, 6-7 minutes. , Spread 2 Tbsp. icing over flat side of each cookie; let stand until set. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

BURGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Place 1/4 cup frosting in each of two small bowls. Tint one red and the other yellow. Spread yellow frosting on the bottoms of 20 vanilla wafers; top with a peppermint patty. Spread with red frosting. Brush tops of the remaining vanilla wafers with corn syrup; sprinkle with sesame seeds. Place over red frosting.

HAMBURGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• In a bowl, combine food coloring with a few drops of water. Add coconut and cover the container, shake until coconut is tinted. Set aside.
• Place 1/2 of the vanilla wafers, flat side up, in an ungreased cookie sheet. Top each wafer with a peppermint patty. Place in the oven about 1 minute or just until chocolate begins to soften.
• Remove cookies from oven and sprinkle each mint with 1/2 teaspoon coconut (for lettuce). Place another vanilla wafer on top and press gentle. With a clean paint brush, brush the top of each hamburger with just enough water to moisten so that the sesame seeds will stick when sprinkled on top of each cookie. NOTE: You can use canned chocolate frosting in place of peppermint patty, then eliminate the baking.

HAMBURGER COOKIES

Steps:

• FROSTING: Combine butter, vanilla, sugar, salt, and half-and-half in an electric mixer.
• Add enough milk to get to a fairly thin consistency for frosting.
• Divide into 3 separate bowls; one holding ½ of the frosting, the other two containing ~1/4 each.
• Color ½ of the frosting orange to simulate cheese, using red and yellow food coloring. (Use real items to match colors).
• Color ¼ of the frosting bright yellow to simulate mustard, and the last, red, to simulate ketchup. (Red will take a LOT of liquid food coloring to get past "pink." You can buy gel-based "super red"at any cake decorating supply store).
• Place each batch of frosting into a plastic baggie.
• Remove air, close, and snip a tiny bit off of one of the bottom corners.
• COOKIES: Preheat oven to 325º. Toast sesame seeds lightly in a small sauté pan. Cool.
• Brush ½ of the Nilla wafers tops with egg wash.
• Place on baking sheet.
• Sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds.
• Pop into the oven for ~5 minutes to gently cook the egg white, so that the cookies don't need to be refrigerated.
• While these are cooking, with a rasp, lightly shave the curved tops of the remaining Nilla wafers, so that they can sit flat on a plate (optional, but makes life easier later).
• Place ½ of the coconut into a plastic zip-lock bag.
• Add several drops of green food coloring and squish the bag around until the coconut resembles lettuce.
• Place the shaved Nilla wafer "bun bottom" with the natural flat side up.
• Dab 4 drops of frosting "ketchup" around the edge. Dab 4 drops of frosting "mustard" in the remaining spaces on the edge.
• Sprinkle green "lettuce" coconut.
• Place the mint cookie "hamburger patty" on top and gently press down slightly.
• Squeeze a GOOD dollop of orange "cheese" frosting on top of the cookie.
• Sprinkle remaining white "onion" coconut on top.
• Place the sesame-coated "top bun" Nilla wafer on top, and gently press down.
• Serve with toasted slivered almonds, resembling French fries!
• *It takes a LOT of liquid red food coloring to get past "pink." Try using "super red" gel-based red pigment, found at any local cake decorating supply store.

HAMBURGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Color the frosting in equal parts red & yellow.
• Color coconut green.
• Spread the now red and yellow frosting on the vanilla wafers.
• Put the chocolate wafer onto the bottom vanilla wafer.
• Put the now green coconut onto the vanilla wafer that's the top one.
• The results should look like a hamburger.
• Chill for about 12-15 minutes and serve.

COPYCAT BERGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Position oven racks in top and bottom thirds of oven. Line two large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Beat butter, vanilla, baking powder, and salt together in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium-high speed until creamy, about 3 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in sugar on medium-high speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Add egg; beat on low until just combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Alternately add flour and milk on low speed, beginning and ending with flour, until just combined.
• Drop slightly rounded tablespoons of dough 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets. Roll dough with floured hands into balls, then gently flatten each ball to a 1 1/2-inch wide circle.
• Bake in the preheated oven, rotating pans halfway through, until golden brown on bottoms, about 10 minutes. Place pans on wire racks; let cool completely on pans, about 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring 1 inch of water in a small saucepan to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat to medium. Place chocolate chips, cream, corn syrup, and vanilla for icing in a medium, heat-proof bowl; place bowl over simmering water in the saucepan; cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until chocolate is melted and mixture is combined, about 5 minutes. Remove bowl from heat; whisk in 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar and salt until smooth and thickened, 2 minutes.
• Dip the flat side of each cookie into the warm icing; return to the baking sheet, chocolate-side up. Let cookies and chocolate cool slightly, uncovered, to room temperature, about 10 minutes. Spread remaining icing evenly over chocolate-dipped cookie tops (about 1 tablespoon each). Let sit at room temperature, until icing is completely set, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.