Cinco de Mayo Treats: Sombrero Cookies

When Henry's teacher asked me to bring Sombrero cookies to help celebrate Cinco de Mayo, I was a little hesitant. This week is not only Teacher Appreciation Week, but Grant's class is learning about Japan {which means I will be making Candy Sushi} and Henry has an award ceremony on Thursday {he got highest GPA in his class for the year!}. I knew I had a busy week ahead of me, but Henry's teacher said she thought the Sombrero Cookies would be really easy to make so I agreed to give them a try:)

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I found the directions on the Family Fun website, bought all the supplies, and then got busy assembling some fun {edible} Sombreros for Henry's class:)

Ingredients:

store bought sugar cookies

a can of white icing

gum drops

nonpareils or sprinkles

Start by putting about half a can of store bought icing into a ziploc bag. Then cut off a tiny piece of one corner to make squeezing the icing onto the cookie easy.

Using your homemade icing bag, squeeze a small bead of icing all the way around the cookie. It doesn't have to be perfect, once it is covered in sprinkles no one will even notice:)

Pour your nonpareils into a shallow dish and then place the iced cookie face down in the plate of nonpareils.

Turn them back over and add a drop of icing in the center of the cookie.

Add a gum drop to the icing then sprinkle on a few extra nonpareils to cover any extra icing.

Once you get your first cookie made and get a feel for it, these are SUPER easy to make assembly line style and the kiddos can even help by sticking on the gum drop!

I hope these Sombrero Cookies help make your Cinco de Mayo a little more fun and a lot sweeter!