Oreo Rocket Ship

Another edible craft to tie into a space unit or space derby! Great for a boy scout pack meeting or birthday party.

Ingredients:

• 13 Double Stuff Oreos
• 1/4 c. canned chocolate or vanilla frosting
• blue food coloring
• 1 Oreo chocolate ice cream cone or you can also use plain cones
• cinnamon red hots
• red cake decorator gel for decorating
• 4 sticks fruit stripe bubble gum

Directions:

1. Stack cookies together, securing with frosting in between each cookie. Let dry completely.
2. Tint remaining frosting blue. Spread cone with blue frosting. Press red hots into frosting around open end of cone. Let dry. Write USA on cone with red decorating gel.
3. Trim ends of gum diagonally; secure with gel round base of rocket. Secure cone with frosting to top of rocket. Decorate rocket with red hots.

If you like, surround rocket ship with mounds of pressured whipped topping for clouds and red candy curls for blast off trails. To make red candy curls, pipe a small amount of melted red candy coating in spiral shapes onto waxed paper. Refrigerate till set. Carefully peel off paper.
Makes 1 rocket ship.