Easy Flip-Flop Cookies

Its fun to have foods with themes when it comes to parties and special occasions. For most people, those foods have to be ordered because theyre too challenging to make. But, if youve got a teen girl having a birthday party, a beach wedding coming up, or another special occasion where a summer, Hawaiian or beach theme is involved, you can easily make at least one specialty food: flip-flop cookies! Using Nutter Butter cookies from the grocery store you can quickly make a plate full of flip-flop cookies for a party or special occasion. The peanut butter cookies, famous for their taste and their shape, already resemble flip-flops. All you have to do is add a little extra detail.

Whether you like to make your own frosting, or purchase it by the can, you can easily tint it to make assorted colors for the flip-flops. Simply place some white frosting in assorted bowls or cups and stir in a few drops of food coloring. Use the basic four colors: red, blue, green and yellow, then mix the main colors to make others. Or, just make all the flip-flops the same color if youre looking for quick and easy.

Frost each cookie on one side then frost around the perimeter of the cookie. Leave the bottom plain. Smooth the frosting out nicely so the flip-flops dont have peaks and dips. You can give the sides of the flip-flops a little texture, though, so they look a little more distinctive than the top of the flip-flop. Do this by simply tapping the frosted sides with a butter knife or spatula, here and there. With gel frosting - frosting that dispenses from a small tube - its easy to make the Nutter Butter cookies look like flip-flops. Squeeze the frosting out, going from the heel area, around one side, around the top, then down the other side. Keep the gel right at the very edge so that you follow the peanut shape exactly. Draw an upside-down "v" shape with the gel that goes from the "toe" area to the sides. To start, place a tiny dot of gel where the strap would go between the big toe and the next one, then draw down from it, one line to one side of the flip-flop and a second line that reaches the opposite side. This will form the straps for the shoes. The little flip-flop cookies dont absolutely have to be frosted in different colors before adding the straps. The color of the Nutter Butter cookies makes them appropriate to simply add gel frosting straps. Theyre cute and delicious and oh, so easy to make!