No-Bake Owl Snack Cakes

Instructions

1. Cover a work surface or cookie sheet with a large piece of parchment paper. Place the snack cakes onto the paper. Using the cookie cutter, gently score half circles onto each side of the cake to denote the owl's wings (don’t cut through, just make a line with the cutter).

2. Twist apart the cream-filled sandwich cookies so that one half of each sandwich cookie has the white filling intact. Save the cookies with no filling for another use. Place two cookies filling-side-up and press a semisweet chocolate chip, pointed-side-down, into the cream filling. 

3. Brush a dime-sized portion of the caramel (or corn syrup) onto the backs of each cookie to act as 'glue'.

4. Place the cookies side-by-side onto the upper third portion of the snack cake, creating ‘eyes’.

5. Brush a small amount of caramel onto one side of a whole almond and place it just below each pair of owl eyes to create a beak.

6. Brush a small amount of caramel, approximately 1/2” long, onto the left and right bottom edge of the snack cake.

7. Place three sunflower seeds, with the pointed ends down, on each of the caramel brushstrokes to create talons.

8. Use a dry art brush loaded with cocoa powder to color the half circle marks to denote the owl's wings.

9. If giving as a gift, allow the snack cakes to stand at room temperature on the parchment paper until the talons, beak and eyes are well-adhered, for about two hours. Then place in a clear treat bag or small box.