Making Pilgrim Hats

Thursday was Maisie’s last day of school before Thanksgiving break and all the children in Maisie’s class joined together with the fourth grade and kindergarten class to share a Thanksgiving feast.  Last year Maisie and I made Pilgrim hats for her class and they were a huge hit so we decided to make them again this year for all the children attending the feast. 

Maisie did a good job dipping the marshmallow in the chocolate and then getting it onto the cookie.  Once the chocolate set I piped on the buckle.

This picture is from last year because by the time I did the piping it was late at night and I just totally forgot to take a picture but trust me, this years hats looked exactly like these and the children loved them as much this year as they did last year.  

It’s funny, when I went back to last years post to snag the picture of the finished hats I saw the pictures of Maisie making them last year and her expressions in the photos are oh-so similar.  Also, other than when she’s at gymnastics, Maisie almost never wears her hair in a ponytail yet both times that she’s made these hats her hair has been pulled back. 

Thankfully the pink unibrow and the one sided heavily applied make-up wasn’t repeated this year.  I find it funny to see how similar last years photos are to this years pictures.

A big thank you to everyone who commented and emailed suggestions, links and well wishes in helping me find wheat, milk and egg free foods for my girl.  I am beginning to find my way and am less freaked out now that I am finding food substitutions for many of her favorites.  We are finding new foods, I have found many recipes and hopefully soon we’ll be in the groove and it will be easy…but this may be our last year of making these Pilgrim hats…oh well.

New recipe posted over on Cook Lisa Cook and though not part of Maisie’s new diet, these Apple Dumplings are sure easy to make and delicious.  Click on the picture to be taken to the recipe.

Other recent recipes posted on Cook Lisa Cook: Mango Lassi, Stir-Fried Asparagus with Water Chestnuts, Ginger & Cashews, Curried Roast Chicken Pieces with Spicy Sweet Potato & Carrots, Grilled Corn & Bacon Pudding, Oriental Chicken Salad, Potato Salad with Bacon, Coffee Crusted Steak, Home Style Chicken Curry, Watermelon Frosty,  Mango Gazpacho, Toll House Double Stuff Oreo Brownies, Long Beans with Walnuts, Blacksmith Pizza, Rhubarb Crisp, Laksa, Math Book No Bake Cookies, Aloo Gobi, Mint Lassi, Red Curry Chicken, Lamb Curry, Grilled Corn, Avocado & Tomato Salad with Honey Lime Dressing, Baked Egg Cups Two Ways, Thai Peanut Salad, Holy Guacamole, Cantaloupe Agua Fresca, Wallaby Darned, Piggy-Out Cookies, Wicked Good New England Lobster Roll, Long Beans with Garlic, Super Simple Summer Shrimp Salsa Salad, Grandma’s Teriyaki Steak, Watermelon Tomato Gazpacho, Red Chinese Long Beans with Peppers & Red Curry, 24-Layer Crêpe Cake Fig & Watermelon Salad, Grilled Chèvre & Fig Panini, Spicy Asian Cucumber Salad, Grilled Prawns, Spicy Brown Sugar Bacon, Kicked Up Piggy-Out Cookies, Pesto Pita Pizza, Cilantro Lime Chicken, Nutella Crêpes, Mango, Lime & Chile Spiced Ice Box Pie, Roast Beef & Garlic Herb Cheese Sandwich, Layered Crespelle with Bolognese, Fresh Mozzarella & Basil, Jamaican Jerk Meat Pies, Nutella No Bake Cookies, Velvety Mac & Cheese, Welsh Cakes, Tom Yam Ghoong (Spicy Shrimp Soup), Lime Jewels, Southwest Pasta Salad, Walnut Roca Squares, Uncle Bubba’s Shrimp & Grits, Chocolate Chip Gingersnaps, Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies, Copycat “KFC” Coleslaw, Happy 6th Birthday Maisie Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, Caramel Stuffed Apple Cider Cookies, Thin Mint Irish Coffee, Caramel Apples, “Rotisserie” Chicken, Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwich, Mummy Hotdogs, Mango Upside Down Cake, Pork Belly Soup with Collard Greens, Aloo Tikki, Pink Strawberry Cake Balls and Praline Pumpkin Cheesecake.

Enjoy!