Bakin' Burgers

So, last month was Ryan's birthday. For occasions like this i usually try and find a new item to add to his burger collection, but this time i couldn't find anything that i liked.



Luckily, i like to make things, and sometimes bake things (though rarely), so i at first thought i'd go ahead and bake a burger cake. That idea was nixed rather quickly and i opted to try and make burger cookies instead. I found instructions for these, and i say "instructions" because there's absolutely no baking involved. They're little and cute, but not quite what i was looking for. I ended up just using them as inspiration for my own burger cookies...butterscotch and chocolate...which evolved from a recipe for checkerboard cookies (found in The Cookie Bible). I tweaked things here and there and it was basically a crazy experiment that left me with lots of gigantic but ungiftable cookies because they were cracking into little pieces. I managed to salvage three whole burgers, parts of which ended up hollow (something i've never experienced before), decorated them with icing and packaged them in a neat little box.

Even though things went a little crazy, they turned out pretty neat and he was totally surprised!