How To Make Baby Yoda Cookies
These baby Yoda cookies will surely spark joy with their cuteness! Each sugar cookie is decorated with a buttercream base and royal icing.
Ingredients
For Sugar Cookies:
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg, large
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
For Buttercream Base:
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4½ cups powdered sugard
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp heavy cream, or whipping cream
- ½ tbsp vanilla extract
For Royal Icing:
- 3 tbsp meringue powder
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 6 tbsp water, at room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- water, additional, to bring to flooding consistency
Instructions
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Get started with the dough and have the ingredients at room temperature for a perfectly smooth consistency.
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Cream the butter and sugar until well combined. Beat in egg and add vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Add flour in ½ cup increments to avoid a kitchen-dust-storm.
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Once the dough is complete, generously flour the working surface and roll out the cookie dough to ¼-inch thick. Use a conventional Christmas angel cookie cutter to create the initial cut out, then transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Now it’s time for the dramatic battle scene, take a butter knife and chop off the angel’s head and smooth the edges to form a mound.
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Freeze cookie dough for at least 15 minutes. Pop it into the oven at 350 degrees F and bake for 10 minutes.
Buttercream Base:
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While the cookies bake, start on the frosting options. Give each cookie a thin base layer of buttercream to build the canvas.
Royal Icing:
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Beat the powdered sugar, water, and meringue powder on medium-high speed for about 3 minutes when stiff peaks start to form. Add the first 6 tablespoons of water to get the piping icing ready.
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Set aside a ¼ cup of piping icing for each major, for outline on the cookie. Place the piping icing into a plastic sandwich bag.
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Add a ½ tablespoon of water at a time until drawing a figure 8 in the frosting with a knife, which takes exactly 8 seconds to disappear back into the frosting is possible.
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Once desired consistency is reached, partition the frosting into plastic sandwich bags and create the Yoda-green and space towel-brown colors with a gel coloring pack. Create a single bag with 1 tablespoon of flooding icing to make cute black eyes and keep at least 1 teaspoon of white flooding icing for the detailed specks on the eyes.
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Start with the piping the outline of the Baby Yoda, which will likely set in about 5 to 10 minutes. By the time Yoda's are outlined, fill them in with the color flood icing to match. The flood icing may take longer to set.
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Once the head and body of the cookie are filled out, return to complete the finishing touches. Using the small bag of black icing drop a small dot for each eye. Finish off each eye with a few tiny white specks placed with a toothpick dipped back into the original white frosting bowl.
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Serve and enjoy.
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