I made these for my daughter Georgia’s 2nd birthday party. She loves Dorothy the Dinosaur, so I happily obliged. I made sugar cookies following this recipe and I cut them out using a Dorothy cartboard shape that I had made for this purpose.
I decided to make “cookie pops”, so I just inserted a pop stick into the cookies after cutting them out. Do this slowly so you don’t break the dough. Also, you may want to keep your cookies a bit thicker, just to make sure that they don’t break.
Put the cookie dough shapes back into the freezer for 10 minutes to 15 minutes to chill again (or you can keep them in the fridge for longer, depending on how warm it is where you live). They will then hold their shape better when baked.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 175°C – 350°F for 8 to 12 minutes (I kept mine 12 minutes as they were quite large and thick) or until the edges become golden brown.
Let the cookies cool to room temperature and then decorate them.
I decorated them with Royal Icing (you can find the recipe and a list of all the tools you need here) and coloured it with food colouring (both gels and liquid).
You start by outlining the shapes with a very thin line of icing and then fill it in (“flooding”).
Some people use a thinner consistency of icing to flood the cookies, but I followed Marian’s suggestion (Sweetopia) and used the same icing (a bit thicker) to outline and flood because it saved me time. Also, these cookies were a spur of the moment idea so I did not have all the tools I needed (I only had a #2 tip and only 1 of those!), so I wanted to keep the icing types to a bare minimum.
Anyhow, I was quite satisfied with the results! And had lots of fun!
Also, check out my Heart shaped sugar cookies!
I am linking this recipe to #cookielove! Make sure to click on the link to check out all the other amazing cookie recipes! 🙂
Ohmigosh these are just too cute! And I bet they were a huge hit, mom! 🙂
Buzzed!
You are the best mom!!! Darling cookies!!!
Hi Manu-I just love these Dorothy the Dinosaur cookies. They are adorable:)
Oh so cute!!My kids will love these..have to make them 🙂
What a super cute idea! Love your advice on how to keep the icing the right consistency.
Wow…these are so cute!! You are very skilled in your cookie decorating!!
Soo cute – love their mad staring eyes!
Aww these are so adorable! My daughter would love these, too. And I love that she is into dinasours. You should check out “Dinosaur Train” for her, it is a great educational show, and my daughter loves it. 🙂
i’ve never been able to decorate cookies like this! they are adorable. i bet your daughter LOVED them! thanks for linking to our bloghop! #cookielove
What a cute bunch of cookies ! They are so adorable! Glad you could join CookieLove with us!
I love the tutorial along with this recipe. Great #cookielove!
I love your cookies!! They’re really nice and cute!!
You did such a great job my dear….
I am sure your daughter would have enjoyed them….
Great job Manu.
Just simply adorable!!!! Thank you for the tips, and help with the process. I want to get better at decorating cakes and cookies:-) Your daughter was very lucky, she had beautiful cookies for her Birthday:-) Hugs, Terra
Wow! These are so cute!
So cute, my son used to love the wiggles.