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Carrots in Dirt




Source of Recipe


internet


Recipe Link: http://http://ourdish.blogspot.com/2011/04/carrots-in-dirt.html

List of Ingredients




1 tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough (instead of premade cookie dough, I used my favorite cookie dough and flavored orange with yellow + red food coloring = orange)
yellow and red food coloring
1 package of Oreo cookies
toothpicks
green ribbon
small plastic cups

Recipe



Dump out your cookie dough into a bowl.
Slowly knead in a few drops of food coloring at a time until you reach a rich, orange color. Helpful hints: Mine needed a bit more of the yellow than red. I'll be honest, this took MANY drops until the color was right.
Roll about a teaspoon of dough between your palms to get this skinny cone shape. (Have you heard of those "Bugles" corn chips? You want the size of that, only a tad longer.) Keep them quite small, they really grow while cooking.
Take a knife and lightly touch it to each carrot 4-5 times to make some cute little lines. Nothing too deep.
Now you're ready for the oven! Bake them at 350 for 7-8 minutes. Don't let them brown on the edges!
While those are cooking, load up your food processor with a bunch of Oreo cookies.
Once you've ground them into coarse crumbs, put a spoonful into each cup (about 1/3 full). Mine are 3-oz. "bathroom cups" I found at Walmart.
Once your carrots come out of the oven and cool down, you can tie a bow or knot of ribbon around the end of a toothpick and CAREFULLY stab that into the top of each cookie.
Place your carrot cookie in the cup of dirt and spoon a little more crumbs on each side until it stands up on its own.