Mini Hamburgers
There's a snack I make all the time for work because they love it, so I figured I'd share it with all of you! And no, it isn't what you think...
Ingredients:
Vanilla Wafers
Peppermint Patties
Green, Yellow, and Red Icing
-The amount needed for each depends on how many you want to make. I generally get one box of wafers for every bag of patties. If I want more, I get more.
-The icing is tricky. We used to make it by buying two tubs of white frosting and mixing in food coloring until it looked good. This took a lot of time and a lot of wasted icing. My suggestion is to just buy the pre-colored tubes. Not only does it save time in the preparation process, it saves a lot of time in the making process. Here's what I bought for this:
If you're mixing colors with the icing, do that first. Use one tub for the green, and then split the second tub for the yellow and red. You want a mustard yellow, ketchup red, and lettuce green.
If you're not mixing colors, go ahead and lay out your wafers. If you're using one box, I wouldn't go more than twenty-four at a time. Also, be sure the surface you're using is clean and the wafers you use aren't chipped. :)
Lettuce goes on first (that's the green icing). If you mixed the colors, use a knife to smear some on. If you didn't use a knife, squeeze the pre-color on the entire wafer.
Next, you want to put on your patties. I really like using the Valentine's Yorks because they're pink in the middle (medium rare, please!). Oh, make sure they're unwrapped too!
The next two steps can be tricky if you're a bit uncoordinated, like I used to be. On half of the patty (or wafer, if you'd rather do that instead -- you'd just need extra room to stick the new wafers), smear/squeeze on some ketchup.
After that, use the other half to smear/squeeze on some mustard. Yes, these two steps are interchangeable. You don't always have to do ketchup first. In fact, if you want, you can even do these before the lettuce! But the lettuce must be separated from the ketchup and mustard or else the patty won't stay on.
Now, you can stick the last wafer onto the patty.
Make sure you store them in either a container. They need to eventually go in the fridge for a while when you're done.
You also don't have to be stuck to the peppermint patties! We found a way to make veggie burgers. Just replace the patties with Andes mints (or any other slightly small and flat mint with a green center). One and a half Andes mints per burger.
After you're done, put them in the fridge. A day is best, but if you don't have that long, just put them in there until you're ready to take them out and enjoy!
I didn't show it here, but we also used to add "cheese" to our burgers. The white chocolate that you melt into candy (you find it at craft stores) can be put straight onto the burger (with the help of a tiny bit of white frosting).
Ingredients:
Vanilla Wafers
Peppermint Patties
Green, Yellow, and Red Icing
-The amount needed for each depends on how many you want to make. I generally get one box of wafers for every bag of patties. If I want more, I get more.
-The icing is tricky. We used to make it by buying two tubs of white frosting and mixing in food coloring until it looked good. This took a lot of time and a lot of wasted icing. My suggestion is to just buy the pre-colored tubes. Not only does it save time in the preparation process, it saves a lot of time in the making process. Here's what I bought for this:
If you're mixing colors with the icing, do that first. Use one tub for the green, and then split the second tub for the yellow and red. You want a mustard yellow, ketchup red, and lettuce green.
If you're not mixing colors, go ahead and lay out your wafers. If you're using one box, I wouldn't go more than twenty-four at a time. Also, be sure the surface you're using is clean and the wafers you use aren't chipped. :)
Lettuce goes on first (that's the green icing). If you mixed the colors, use a knife to smear some on. If you didn't use a knife, squeeze the pre-color on the entire wafer.
Next, you want to put on your patties. I really like using the Valentine's Yorks because they're pink in the middle (medium rare, please!). Oh, make sure they're unwrapped too!
The next two steps can be tricky if you're a bit uncoordinated, like I used to be. On half of the patty (or wafer, if you'd rather do that instead -- you'd just need extra room to stick the new wafers), smear/squeeze on some ketchup.
After that, use the other half to smear/squeeze on some mustard. Yes, these two steps are interchangeable. You don't always have to do ketchup first. In fact, if you want, you can even do these before the lettuce! But the lettuce must be separated from the ketchup and mustard or else the patty won't stay on.
Now, you can stick the last wafer onto the patty.
Make sure you store them in either a container. They need to eventually go in the fridge for a while when you're done.
You also don't have to be stuck to the peppermint patties! We found a way to make veggie burgers. Just replace the patties with Andes mints (or any other slightly small and flat mint with a green center). One and a half Andes mints per burger.
After you're done, put them in the fridge. A day is best, but if you don't have that long, just put them in there until you're ready to take them out and enjoy!
I didn't show it here, but we also used to add "cheese" to our burgers. The white chocolate that you melt into candy (you find it at craft stores) can be put straight onto the burger (with the help of a tiny bit of white frosting).