Piñata cookies

[maxfox426]

Piñata cookies

I has made them.

My husband found the recipe a couple weeks ago:
http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/articles/958083/cinco-de-mayo-pinata-cookies

After reading the reviews, I opted to switch out the sugar cookie dough with this recipe*:
http://annies-eats.com/2010/04/02/sugar-cookies-revisited/
*(I doubled the recipe and left out the vanilla bean & lemon zest.)

Also, I don't have a donkey shaped cookie cutter, so I used the next best thing. Stegosaurus.

 

[MericoX]

The most EPIC cookies ever. I have plans of making schnauzer-shaped ones at some point.

 

[katielou]

Yay!

I made some on Thursday for my husband to take to work.

So much fun.

 

[puppydog]

That sounds like a lot of work!!

 

[CaliTerp07]

Zach showed me the recipe for them yesterday! Soooooo cool! If I ever have loads of free time, I'm totally going to make them.

 

[maxfox426]

They took me all day, but I also added steps by chilling the dough in balls before layering them (completely unnecessary) and then I cut the cookies before baking (because I didn't want to waste dough). As a result, I lost an extra two hours to the fridge, and then a lot more time re-rolling and cutting shapes. However, I will say that is how I got the swirly "tie-dye" looking dinos, which did look cool.

The edges would have looked more polished had I cut them after baking like the recipe recommended, though.


Long story short, they take some time, but shouldn't have taken as long as I made them out to bed. LOL! Live and learn!

 

[-bogart-]

i was looking at them on pintrest ealier then came here and am in total awe !

great job and they look delicoius!

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

oh those look fantastic!

 

[~Jessie~]

Those are SO COOL!

 

[JessLough]

Totally need to make some.

 

[Miakoda]

These rock!

And fwiw, I prefer the Stegosaurus ones.