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.
Author: Cassie from The Thrifty Couple
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:
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
-Add all 4 eggs at one time...Continue to mix.
-Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
-Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
-Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
-Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
-Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
-Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
-Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
-Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
the batter. (if needed)
-Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using a round or circle cookie cutter, begin to make your cookies.
-Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
-Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
-Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
-Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
(About 10 minutes).
Icing Directions:
-Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
-If icing is not stiff enough add ¼ C powder sugar.
- Divide the icing between 4 bowls. In the first bowl put ¼ of icing leaving it white.
-Add several drops of black gel food coloring in the second bowl of icing (about ¼). Stir well to mix the color.
-Add several drops of blue gel food coloring in the third bowl of icing. Stir well to mix the color.
-Add several drops of pink gel food coloring in the fourth bowl of icing. Stir well to mix the color.
-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:
-Outline each of the round cookies in black icing.
-Next go around the cookie several more times in the black.
-Leave the nearest area to the black untouched at this time.
-Go around the cookie several times in the blue icing.
-Fill in the area between the black and blue with pink icing.
-Fill in the center of the cookie with white icing.
-Using a toothpick, dip into one color and drag it to blend the other colors.
-Continue to repeat this process until all colors throughout the cookie has been pulled together.
-Add numerous small dots throughout the cookie to look like stars.
-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/