Presidents’ Day Cookies (Abe & George)
What better way to honor some of our founding fathers than with a sweet treat in the likenesses of George Washington and Honest Abe?
Start with Nilla Wafers or Easy-Peasy Sugar Cookies.
Using big cookies, full-size chips and baby marshmallows
You will need:
- Cookies (fully cooled)
- Chocolate bar that’s divided into sections (if you need to cut the chocolate, dip the blade of a sharp knife in hot water for a few seconds so the chocolate doesn’t break)
- Black gel icing
- Regular chocolate or vanilla icing (homemade royal icing would work the best, but we just grabbed a tub of cake frosting off the shelf for this project)
- For small president cookies, use mini-marshmallows (dehydrated, for hot cocoa — you can sometimes find these in shaker canisters in the baking aisle), mini-chocolate chips
- For large president cookies, use mini-marshmallows, full-sized chocolate chips
Use the icing to attach the hats, chocolate chips, and marshmallows to the cookies, then draw on little faces with the black icing. You may need to let the icing set for about half an hour so Abe’s candy bar hat will stay on as you serve the cookies.
About Presidents’ Day
This year, Presidents Day falls on Monday, February 20, 2017. February 22 was George Washington’s birthday, and Presidents Day began as a day to honor our very first president. For what presidential actions were Abraham Lincoln and George Washington most well-known? Who is your favorite president, and why? Can you name the Presidents in order? Here is a list of the US Presidents, from the founding of this nation to the current day.
- George Washington, 1789-1797
- John Adams, 1797-1801
- Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
- James Madison, 1809-1817
- James Monroe, 1817-1825
- John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
- Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
- Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
- William Henry Harrison, 1841
- John Tyler, 1841-1845
- James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
- Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
- Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
- Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
- James Buchanan, 1857-1861
- Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
- Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
- Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
- James Abram Garfield, 1881
- Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
- Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
- Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
- Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
- William McKinley, 1897-1901
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
- William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
- Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
- Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
- Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
- Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
- Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
- Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
- Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
- James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
- Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
- William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
- George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
- Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-2016
- Donald John Trump, 2016 (current)
Happy Presidents’ Day!
Using big cookies, full-size chips and baby marshmallows