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Pokemon Cookies

Learn how to make Pokemon cookies in the shape of pokeballs. These sugar cookies are perfect for a Pokemon themed party or fan!
Yield 24 Pokemon Cookies
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Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Cups Flour
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 2 Sticks Unsalted Butter
  • 1 ⅓ Cups Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • Red and Black Food Coloring

Equipment

  • Electric Mixer or Stand Mixer
  • Spatula
  • Plastic Wrap
  • Rolling Pin
  • Pastry brush
  • Baking Pan
  • Parchment Paper or Silicone Baking Mat
  • Cooling Rack

Instructions
 

Make the Sugar Cookie Dough

  • Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set it aside.
    3 Cups Flour, ½ tsp Baking Powder, ½ tsp Salt
    sifting flour and dry ingredients in a sifter
  • In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar.
    2 Sticks Unsalted Butter, 1 ⅓ Cups Sugar
    adding sugar from a measuring cup into a stand mixer with creamed butter
  • Add the vanilla extract.
    2 tsp Vanilla Extract
    pouring vanilla extract into cap
  • Add in the eggs, one at a time.
    2 Eggs
    cracking an egg into an stand mixer
  • Gradually add in the flour mixture. Mix only until just combined.
    flour added to creamed butter in a stand mixer

Divide and Color the Dough

  • Divide the dough in half. Shape that half into a flat circle, wrap it in plastic wrap, and place it into the fridge.
    wrapping sugar cookie dough in plastic wrap
  • Break off about a third of the other half and set it aside.
    Add several drops of red food coloring to the larger section.
    Red and Black Food Coloring
    adding red food coloring to cookie dough
  • Mix in the food coloring by folding the dough over and kneading it several times.
    folding cookie dough over to mix in food coloring
  • Once it’s the color you’d like, shape it into a disc and wrap it in plastic wrap. Then place it into the fridge.
    wrapping red cookie dough in plastic wrap
  • Add black food coloring to the smallest section. Kneed in the color, wrap it in plastic wrap, and place it in the fridge.
    wrapping black cookie dough in plastic wrap

Shape the Pokemon Sugar Cookies

  • Break off a piece of the plain dough and roll it into a log.
    rolling cookie dough into a log
  • Break off a section of the black dough and roll it into a thin rectangle that’s the same length of the log.
    using a wooden rolling pin to roll black cookie dough in to a rectangle
  • Brush off any extra flour. Then use the pastry brush to paint on some water onto the dough.
    brushing water onto cookie black dough
  • Wrap it around the white log.
    wrapping black rectangle of cookie dough around plain log
  • Form identical rectangles out of the red and white dough. Make sure it’s the same length as the log you just made.
    shaping red cookie dough into thick rectangle
  • Then make two skinnier rectangles out of the black.
    using pastry brush to brush black cookie dough with water
  • Brush them both with water and attach them to the sides of the white dough.
    adding strips of black cookie dough to sides of plain
  • Then wipe one side of red dough and attach it to one of the black stripes.
    Then wrap it up and put in the fridge.
    adding section of red cookie dough to strip of black to form the outside of the pokemon cookies
  • Once hardened, roll it out a bit so it connects all of the colors and is taller than the circumference of the black log.
    using a wooden rolling pin to roll stripes of black, white, and red cookie dough to form the outside of the pokemon cookies
  • Brush it with water. Then wrap it around the black log.
    wrapping black, red, and white sugar cookie dough around black log to form the pokemon cookies
  • Use your fingers to connect the ends around the log and then roll it so it’s all one uniform log.
    rolling log of pokemon cookie dough with hands

Cut and Bake the Cookies

  • Cut the cookies, making them roughly 1/2 in wide.
    using a knife to cut off a small section of pokemon sugar cookie dough
  • You may need to reshape them a bit to form a nice even Pokeball cookie.
    shaping pokemon cookie dough that's in the shape of a pokeball
  • Place the Pokemon sugar cookies onto a baking tray lined with either parchment paper or silicone mat.
    raw pokemon cookies on sheet pan
  • Depending on the size of cookie you cut, they’ll bake for 10-30 minutes. Then place them onto a cooling rack.
    using spatula to put two pokemon cookies onto cooling rack with other pokemon sugar cookies

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