These delicious pilgrim hat cookies will look so festive on your holiday dessert table! Quick and easy Thanksgiving dessert ideas like this are a must during this time of the year.
These adorable no-bake cookie treats are a great way to keep your kids involved while you are busy getting Thanksgiving dinner ready. The Thanksgiving treats for kids are super easy to put together, fun to display on a dessert table and, best of all, really tasty.
Since this is a no-bake dessert it keeps the oven space free for other things like a Thanksgiving turkey, and side dishes!
Ingredients to make the pilgrim hat cookies
The edible pilgrim hats are an adaptation of a similar recipe that I found a few years ago on Taste of Home. I have changed the ingredients to make the treats more peanut-buttery since I am a huge peanut butter fan!
To make the pilgrim hat treats, you will need the following ingredients:
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- 24 chocolate covered peanut butter filled cookies (I used Benton’s brand from Aldi, but you could also use tagalong Girl Scout cookies)
- 24 miniature peanut butter cups
- 1 teaspoon orange frosting in a tube
- 1 teaspoon of chocolate frosting in a tube
- 6 Swedish fish (orange fish)
How to make these no bake Thanksgiving cookies
To start making these pilgrim hat cookies, carefully cut the Swedish fish with a sharp knife into small squares. They will end up being the hat buckle.
I used orange Swedish fish for this, but any type of gummy that can be cut into a square will also work.
Then turn the peanut butter filled cookies over so that the flat part is on top. Add a dollop of frosting to the top of a peanut butter cup and turn it upside down to attach it to the cookie.
Be sure the widest part of the peanut butter cookie facing the chocolate cookie.
See how easy this recipe is? They are already looking like hats!
Making the pilgrim hat cookie rim and buckle
The next step is to make the hat brim from orange frosting.
You can use an orange frosting tube with a piping tip attached or make some vanilla frosting and dye it with orange gel food coloring.
Pipe it around the edge of the peanut butter cup to form a hat brim.
While the frosting is still soft, attach a cube of the orange Swedish fish to each pilgrim hat cookie.
Tada! That is all there is to these easy Thanksgiving pilgrim hat cookies.
These adorable little Thanksgiving desserts are finished in just minutes and will satisfy anyone’s hankering for peanut butter.
It’s easy to make this Pilgrim hat cookies recipe the focus of your Thanksgiving dessert table.
I made a tablescape to display them using some reclaimed wood (from an old mailbox post) that I originally painted orange, velvet pumpkins, silk leaves, a wooden cheese board and burlap ribbon. It took me all of 5 minutes to put together!
An easy dessert and an festive tablescape in about a half hour. Win-win in my book!
When you’re done making this dessert, get these free Thanksgiving puzzles (word search, word scramble, crossword puzzle, and scavenger hunt) and look for the word ‘pilgrim’ in them, and other words that are symbolic of the holiday.
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Pilgrim Hat Cookies - Easy No Bake Thanksgiving Treats for Kids
This pilgrim hat cookie recipe is ready in less than 30 minutes and the kids can do it themselves!
Ingredients
- 24 chocolate covered peanut butter cookies
- 24 miniature peanut butter cups
- 1 teaspoon orange frosting in a tube
- 1 teaspoon of chocolate frosting in a tube
- 6 Swedish fish
Instructions
- Cut the Swedish fish into 24 small cubes with a sharp knife.
- Use a dot of chocolate frosting to attach the upside down peanut butter cup to the upside down cookie.
- Attach a piping tip to the tube of orange frosting and pipe around the edge of the peanut butter cup to make a hat brim.
- While the frosting is still soft, press on the Swedish fish for a buckle.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Vanilla frosting can also be tinted orange with gel food coloring and placed in a zip lock bag with the end snipped off if you don't have the tube frosting.
Any frosting will work under the peanut butter cup, since it will not show.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
24Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 103.6Total Fat: 4.7gSaturated Fat: 1.6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3.1gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 22.7mgCarbohydrates: 14.5gFiber: 1.8gSugar: 7.8gProtein: 1.2g
Nutritional information is approximate due to natural variation in ingredients and the cook-at-home nature of our meals.