Mickey Mouse Black and White Cookies
Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? It’s Mickey Mouse and today is his 87th birthday! Lookin’ good, Mickey!
Mickey Mouse has always been my favorite Disney character and through the years he’s gotten fancy with updated clothes and even updated eyeballs! But my favorite era Mickey is the 1928 Mickey, when he first appeared on screen. These cookies are an homage to those old black and white movies. Gray and white cookie dough formed to make the world’s cutest cookie couple, Mickey and Minnie. Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse!
Mickey Mouse Black and White Cookies
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
black food gel dye
black icing
confetti sprinkles
heart sprinkles
Instructions:
In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and the sugar. Add the egg and vanilla.
Add the flour mixture until combined. Divide the dough into two, wrap one of the halves in plastic wrap and keep in the fridge.
To the second half add a drop of black food gel dye and combine until the dough becomes gray. Wrap that half in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge until you are ready to use.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep baking sheets with silpats or parchment.
Roll out the plain dough and use a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter to cut out shape, then the press to add the face detail. Cut around Mickey’s ears and face to separate.
Place the faces on the prepped cookie sheets.
Roll out the gray dough and do the same, this time save the ear pieces and line them around the face pieces on the baking sheets to complete the puzzle. Once this bakes it will form into one complete cookie.
Bake for 8-10 minutes depending on your oven and let cool on a wire rack.
Once the cookies have cooled use a #2 tip to add eyes and a nose.
Pipe a small amount of icing to adhere an upside down heart sprinkle for the tongue.
If you’re making Minnie cookies use confetti sprinkles to form the flower on her hat.
Once the icing is set the cookies are ready to serve.
Bake for 10 minutes, let cool on a wire rack.
Using a #2 tip and black icing, pipe the eyes and whiskers.
Again using a #2 tip, pipe a small amount of yellow icing for the nose.
For the hair bow use red icing and a #4 tip to pipe the outline, then press a large heart sprinkle into the frosting to finish off the bow.
