It's one of my favorite days - May the 4th Be With You (aka May 4th aka Star Wars Day!)'
To celebrate I made some of my favorite characters in sugar cookie form.
Since the movies are done (well for now) I'm catching up on some of the cartoon series. They have some great characters too like Hera Syndulla from Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars Clone Wars (and Rebels). Princess Leia is an all-time fav so I had to include her.
And Loth-cats. What's a Loth-cat you ask? They are super cute critters from Star Wars Rebels! Aren't they adorbs?
Really easy to make too! So made a whole gang of them.
To make all of the cookies I started with a really easy no spread cookie dough recipe. I use this recipe from In Katrina's Kitchen. I used it for another version of Baby Yoda cookies and it worked great.
Once the cookie dough is mixed tint with natural food colors and/or a tiny bit of food color gels to get the right colors.
The green is matcha powder, orange is tumeric (and tiny bit of orange food gel), brown is cocoa powder, and yellow is tumeric too.
This dough holds it shape really well. I use it like clay to freehand the characters. Below is pre-bake. Add some detail like the Loth-cat mouth before baking.
Bake only for about 10 minutes and keep checking to make sure they don't brown too much. Post-bake below.
Princess Leia & her iconic buns!
You can never have enough Baby Yoda
Ahsoka Tano is one of my newest favs on the shows.
Also Just Jenn Recipes has tons of great ideas as well - thanks for so much inspiration!
Hera Syndulla is another great female character plus she's a Twi'lek!
I love the animals and creatures of Star Wars so much and the Loth-cats are no exception. I love their colors and pointy ears. The white Loth cat has some specialness in Star Wars Rebels so included it here too.
You get a pretty neat looking mix of sugar cookies from across the Star Wars universe.
Happy Star Wars Day - Hope everyone is quarantining well!
Other Star Wars Treats you may like below.
Star Wars Character (Princess Leia, Ahsoka Tano, Hera Syndulla, Baby Yoda and Loth-cat) Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 batch of no spread cookie dough
- 2 teaspoons cocoa powder for brown
- 2 teaspoons matcha powder for green
- 2 teaspoons turmeric for yellow
- 2 teaspoons of turmeric (plus 1 drop orange food gel) for orange
- Blue food gel (for Ahsoka detail)
- 1 black food marker
- Pink and white candy melt / wafers (for baby yoda, Ahsoka, and Hera detail)
- Heart shaped sprinkles for mouths
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Divide cookie dough into 5 pieces (depending on which characters you are doing)
- Tint each with colors as above in ingredients
- Free hand roll out characters (as in photos). I use the cookie dough like clay or play doh and it works great. Mix colors as needed to give marble effect for Loth-cats.
- For Loth-cat add mouth with knife before baking.
- Bake for 10 minutes or just baked. Watch closely so the cookies don't brown too much.
- Once cooled, paint on blue detail for Ahsoka's hair. Use melted pink candy wafer to add detail for baby Yoda's ears and for Ahsoka and Hera's detail.
- Use candy melt to attach heart sprinkles for Leia, Ahsoka, and Hera's mouth.
- Use black food marker to add eyes and Loth-cat detail.
Prep time: 90 minutes for about 2-3 dozen cookies
