15 Sweets You Can Make With Frosted Animal Cookies
By Alexa O'Connell
There is a sort of nostalgia to frosted animal crackers. These pink and white crackers are that snack that you always used to try to sneak into your cart at the grocery store, but your parents never let you buy ‘em.
As years have passed, these beloved cookies aren’t seen as frequently on college pantry shelves. Alright, let’s be honest, none of us are really grown ups yet. All the more reason to make some sweet treats out of one of the most loved childhood cookies.
Homemade Frosted Animal Crackers
If you’re feelin’ super ambitious, make your own frosted animal crackers to use in these recipes.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 1-2
Ingredients:
2 cups white chocolate chips
1 box animal crackers
Red food dye
Rainbow sprinkles
Directions:
1. Put white chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat up for 30 seconds. Take the bowl out, mix the chocolate, and return to the microwave for another 30 seconds. Keep repeating this step until your white chocolate chips have become liquid white gold.
Tip: No microwave? No problem. Check out these other ways to make your liquid gold.
2. Add a little love to your melted white chocolate with a drop or two of red food dye, and mix it all in.
3. Invite your animal crackers to the party and get creative. Dip, drizzle, or dunk each one.
4. Make it rain colorful rainbow sprinkles over the freshly frosted animal crackers. Let the warm frosting cool for a bit and enjoy.
Frosted Animal Cracker Cupcakes
Add animal cookie bits to the batter and frosting of your cupcakes. The simplest of additions is always the sweetest. Get the recipe here.
Frosted Animal Cracker Muddy Buddies
You’ve never seen puppy chow like this–all covered in white chocolate, sprinkles, and most importantly, frosted animal crackers. Here’s how to make a batch.
Frosted Animal Cracker Milkshake
The perfect add-in to a classic vanilla milkshake. Check the recipe here.
Frosted Animal Cracker Blondies
If I were a frosted animal cracker, I would love nothing more than to be baked into blondie batter. That would be priiime. The recipe is here.
Trader Joe’s does a damn good cookie butter, but this one takes it a level up. Instead of Speculoos cookies, frosted animal cookies make a cookie butter that you’ll want to eat straight out of the dish. Here’s how.
The smoothness of the fudge together with the crunchiness of the cookies… it doesn’t get much better than that. Get the recipe here.
Frosted Animal Cracker Sugar Cookies
Lemme tell ya, frosted animal crackers are 100 times better than chocolate chips. Get the recipe here.
Frosted Animal Cracker Krispie Treats
Get. Out. The two best childhood sweets EVER can be made into the ultimate sweet treat. Get the recipe here.
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