How To Make Star Wars Galaxy Sugar Cookies
 
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Learn to make these tasty, fun themed Star Wars, Space, Galaxy cookies! The ingredients are classic and basic, but makes for an amazing cookie adventure.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Out of This World
Serves: 24
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients:
  • 5 C flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1½ C soft unsalted butter
  • 2 C granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs
Icing Ingredients:
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 C powder sugar
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar
  • Black, blue, pink gel food coloring
Instructions
Cookie Directions:
  1. - Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
  2. -Add all 4 eggs at one time...Continue to mix.
  3. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
  4. -Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
  5. -Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
  6. -Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
  7. -Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
  8. -Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
  9. -Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  10. -Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
  11. - Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
  12. the batter. (if needed)
  13. -Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using a round or circle cookie cutter, begin to make your cookies.
  14. -Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  15. -Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
  16. -Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
  17. -Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
  18. (About 10 minutes).
Icing Directions:
  1. -Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
  2. -If icing is not stiff enough add ¼ C powder sugar.
  3. - Divide the icing between 4 bowls. In the first bowl put ¼ of icing leaving it white.
  4. -Add several drops of black gel food coloring in the second bowl of icing (about ¼). Stir well to mix the color.
  5. -Add several drops of blue gel food coloring in the third bowl of icing. Stir well to mix the color.
  6. -Add several drops of pink gel food coloring in the fourth bowl of icing. Stir well to mix the color.
  7. -Spoon each color of icing into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips. Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
Basic Design Directions:
  1. -Outline each of the round cookies in black icing.
  2. -Next go around the cookie several more times in the black.
  3. -Leave the nearest area to the black untouched at this time.
  4. -Go around the cookie several times in the blue icing.
  5. -Fill in the area between the black and blue with pink icing.
  6. -Fill in the center of the cookie with white icing.
  7. -Using a toothpick, dip into one color and drag it to blend the other colors.
  8. -Continue to repeat this process until all colors throughout the cookie has been pulled together.
  9. -Add numerous small dots throughout the cookie to look like stars.
  10. -Allow the cookies to dry from 5-10 hours.
Recipe by The Thrifty Couple at https://thethriftycouple.com/how-to-make-star-wars-galaxy-sugar-cookies/