Santa Yoda cookies
I love Christmas and I love Star Wars so what better way to celebrate the holidays than to combine the two? Yoda’s already green so add a little red Santa hat and you’ve got yourself a festive holiday cookie.
Williams Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters are the best, they leave the most detailed impressions on dough. Bake up a batch of these served with a glass of Blue Milk, and you’re ready for the HOTHidays!
Santa Yoda cookies
Ingredients:
You’ll need:
Yoda cookie cutter
Yoda green tea cookie dough
mini marshmallows
snowflake sprinkles
Red cookie dough ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
red food gel dye
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, vanilla, and red food gel dye.
Add the flour mixture until combined. When it pulls away from the sides of the bowl, the dough is ready.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until you are ready to use.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep baking sheets with silpats or parchment.
Roll out the green tea cookie dough and use the Yoda cookie cutter to cut out shapes, slicing off the top of his head just above the eyes. Place the Yoda head on the prepped cookie sheet.
Roll out the red dough and cut triangle shapes. Add them to the top of the Yoda dough’s head and shape into a hat form.
Bake for 10 minutes, let cool on a wire rack.
Use the white icing and a #10 tip to frost the brim of the hat, and a pom pom on the top. Add a half cut mini-marshmallow or a snowflake sprinkle for fun. When the icing is dry the cookies are ready to serve.
You just took me back. I remember drinking blue milk as a treat when I was a kid. I am old.
Trying these tonight!
I want to make sure I’m not reading this wrong:
“In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and the sugar. Add the egg, vanilla, and red food gel dye.
Add the flour mixture until combined. When it pulls away from the sides of the bowl, the dough is ready.
Separate the dough into two. Set one half aside and put the other back in the mixer. Add red gel food coloring and mix until combined.”
I add red food gel to the wet ingredients and then add the dry, then split it into two and put half back in and add red gel again? Won’t that make me all red dough but half even redder? Or am I missing something. I don’t have pre-made matcha dough, I was just going to use some green dye for that part too.
Sorry for the confusion. The recipe has been updated to be more clear!