Fun Hamburger Cupcakes

I have made these a ton of times and they are always a hit!  In fact, they were so cute, they were once posted on a famous celeb’s blog!  These are really easy you just need yellow cake cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes, some frosting and a good sugar cookie recipe!

To assemble your cupcakes:

• Cut the bottoms off all your chocolate cupcakes, these are your burger patties
• Cut the top off your yellow cake cupcakes
• Cut the bottoms off the yellow cupcakes
• Then assemble your cupcakes:  bun, burger then:
  • yellow frosting for the mustard
  • green frosting for the lettuce
  • red frosting for the ketchup
• Top with a burger bun and insert a frilly toothpick

To make the sugar cookie Fries:

• Cut your sugar cookies into 1/2 inch wide log strips.  
• Cut off the ends at an angle.  
• Press sugar lightly into the “fry” shapes.
• Bake for 6-8 minutes

There you go!  A super cute BBQ themed treat!

Hot Dog Sugar Cookies

When I stumbled across this picture in my Pinterest travels, I fell in love with it!  These would be so cute at a 4th of July BBQ or other summer BBQ!   All you need is a great sugar cookie recipe and a few other things and you are set and ready to go!  I am not sure who came up with this idea, (the Pins link back was not this recipe) so I came up with my own!

Sugar Cookie Recipe

I used a box dough for this because I was in a bit of a time crunch.  If you are looking to make them from scratch, a friend used a recipe from Betty Crocker and says that it was awesome to work with.  You will want to make one complete recipe, to get 12 cookies.  If you need more than 12, double your recipe.

What Else You Will Need

• Red Food Coloring
• Yellow Frosting (or color white frosting yellow)
• Coconut (for onions)

How to assemble

• Roll out 12 “buns” in an oval shape
• Mix the red food coloring with the rest of the dough to make the hot dog
• Roll out 12 hot dogs
• Score each end of the hot dogs so that they look like they are sealed
• Sit the hot dog in the bun, slightly press the sides up so that they surround the hot dog
• Bake at the assigned temp and watch carefully for them to not get too brown
• When you remove them from the oven, lightly sprinkle with “coconut” and set to cool

Once your hot dogs are done, place on a rack and cool.

When you hot dogs are cool pipe on a yellow squiggle for the mustard!  You are ready to serve them!