Cookie purses are the edible accessory you never knew you needed

Use a gentle sawing motion with your knife to cut the cookies.

I used a chocolate wafer cookie for the bottom, but any rectangle of cookie would work since you won’t see it.

If your licorice straps don’t stay in place, a little dab of candy melt helps to keep them from moving.

Add the gold candies wherever you like. I thought they made a nice side buckle for the straps.

This purse is made from chocolate sandwich cookies, but you could also use vanilla, peanut butter or lemon.

Bite-size bowler bag cookie recipe

Ingredients:

• Round chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreo cookies or generic brand)
• Chocolate frosting
• Long, brown wafer cookies (Voortman’s cookies)
• Black licorice ropes or wheels
• Gold decorator candies (found in most baking or hobby and craft stores)

Directions:

1. Using a serrated knife, gently cut off the bottom third of a chocolate sandwich cookie.
2. Scrape off the cream filling. Pipe a line of chocolate frosting along the bottom edges of the cut cookie. Cut 1 thin layer of a rectangle of wafer cookie to fit the bottom of your bowler bag. Adhere the bottom wafer rectangle to the sandwich cookie sides. Fill the entire shape with more chocolate frosting.
3. Cut a 3-inch piece of black licorice rope, and loop it around, inserting it into the frosting-filled bowler bag shape. Add more frosting to fill in the shape if needed. Smooth and clean the sides with a knife or toothpick.
4. Decorate the bottom of the licorice purse straps with gold decorator candies.

Next up: Classic clutch cookies