Busy Mom Cookies

Wanted to share a super easy, no bake, kid-participation friendly cookie recipe with you. These cookies disappear as fast as you can make them, they are FUN and they are yummy enough to put out for guests (if you have enough left to share). Don't be shocked by the ingredients...they ARE good. Think frosted animal cookie meets dipped pretzel, with a bonus filling...

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Cookie Sandwiches
Prep Time: 30 min
Cooling time: 15 min

~1 Box Ritz Crackers
~Peanut Butter (my version includes Melted chocolate chips or Nutella too)
~Candy coating melt cubes or chips in your preferred flavor (I use Candy Quik Vanilla squares aka almond bark, but any flavor candy coating would do...try chocolate or white chocolate too)
~food coloring of your choice

Instructions:
1. On a cookie sheet, layout half of your Ritz crackers face up.
2. Spread each cookie with desired filling. (My personal fave is two layers: peanut butter AND melted chocolate chips. But, PB alone, Chocolate alone or Nutella are very tasty! I bet PB & jelly would be yum too!)
3. Using the other half of your Ritz crackers, place one face up on each spread coated cracker to make a little sandwich.
4. According to package directions, melt your candy coating. (Candy Quik can be done in the microwave in about 45sec to 1min. 1 package of candy quik will cover about 24-30 cookie sandwiches.) Coating will be thick and runny, but not SUPER runny like a glaze. Do not overheat trying to make it more runny or it will get lumps!
5. Add a few drops of food coloring to some or all of your melted coating if desired.
6. Drop one sandwich, top down, into the coating. Make sure that you coat at least the whole top and the sides. Remove with a fork and allow excess to drip off of cookie (or scrape a little off if needed)
7. Place on a wire cookie rack to harden. (I prefer not to coat the bottom so they don't stick to the rack.)
8. While the coating is still soft, you can also add sprinkles, colored sugar or other decorations. Once it is hardened, you can drizzle another color of coating across the tops, or dip half into a second color...get creative....lots of options here.
9. Once hardened, they can be carefully removed from the rack and stacked...or eaten!

**You can sub nilla wafers if the Ritz freak you out, but the saltiness really is good. Another variation I have seen is a cracker topped with a large marshmallow and dipped in green candyquik to make leprechaun hats. GO WILD!

Let the kids get messy! Enjoy!