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Baby Godzilla Cookies

March 26, 2013 By Francois 9 Comments

I am not even sure where the idea for this cookies came from but I like the way it turned out. It must be a result of my latest “Kawaii” Japanese addiction. =) One day I started sketching and these little monsters came to life. Here is how to make them:

Baby Godzilla Cookies
 
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makes 12 buildings and 12 monsters
Ingredients
  • for the chocolate dough (buildings):
  • 1½ stick butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • for the vanilla dough (monsters):
  • 1½ stick butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2½ cups flour
  • for royal icing:
  • 2 lbs powdered sugar
  • ⅓ meringue powder
  • ¾ cup water
Instructions
  1. To make chocolate cookie dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix on medium speed to incorporate. Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix on low speed until the dough comes together. Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap to ¼" thickness. Refrigerate for 30 minutes while the oven is preheating to 350 degrees F. Cut dough into rectangle of different sizes and bake for 10 minutes.
  2. To make vanilla cookie dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed to incorporate. Add the flour and mix on low speed until the dough comes together. Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap to ¼" thickness. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut your cookies and bake for 10 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden brown.
  3. To make royal icing, place powdered sugar, meringue powder and water into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on medium speed for a minute to combine, then increase to high speed and continue mixing for 7 minutes.
3.1.08

Let’s start by making our buildings out of chocolate dough.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy:

Add the egg and mix on medium speed to incorporate:

Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix on low speed until the dough comes together:

Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap to 1/4″ thickness:

Refrigerate for 30 minutes while the oven is preheating to 350 degrees. Cut dough into rectangle of different sizes. Using a daisy-shape cutter, create a bite mark into one of the buildings. Bake for 10 minutes:

To make vanilla cookie dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed to incorporate. Add the flour and mix on low speed until the dough comes together. Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap to 1/4″ thickness. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

To shape these cookies, I am using a tulip cookie cutter and chopping off the stems:

Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden brown.
To make royal icing, place powdered sugar, meringue powder and water into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on medium speed for a minute to combine, then increase to high speed and continue mixing for 7 minutes.

 Now let’s bring them all to life.

To decorate the buildings, pipe dots of white icing to mimic the look of night lights:

 Here are the sketches I am using to decorate the baby Godzillas:

Using a food coloring pen, sketch the general outline on each cookie:

Then it’s like paint by numbers:

For the green body, I using the outline piping to create volume in the leg and arm details:

More details:

Using a black food coloring pen, add the face details and belly lines, and you’re done!

RAWR!!!!

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Filed Under: Cookies, Recipes Tagged With: baby, cookie, dinosaur, godzilla, icing

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Comments

  1. Michelle @ MakeMeCake.Me

    March 26, 2013 at 8:58 am

    Adorably scary! I love ’em!

    Reply
  2. kaslay

    March 26, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    とてもかわいい (kawaii)! Cookies look amazing! And baby dinos are so lovely I wouldn’t be even able to eat them.

    Reply
  3. Natalie

    March 26, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    So cute!!!!

    Reply
  4. Mike @ Semi Sweet

    March 27, 2013 at 9:22 am

    Cute monsters! I had to google “Kawaii”. I seen the style but never knew there was the term for it. Now I know! 🙂

    Reply
  5. Kim

    April 7, 2013 at 6:35 pm

    These are so cute! I’m going to try to make them for my 3 year nephew. Though I’m not sure he knows what Godzilla . . . whatever, it gives me an excuse to make them.

    Reply
  6. Janine - sugarkissed.net

    April 18, 2013 at 7:48 am

    You’re so creative! I just subscribed to your blog by email. I don’t know how it’s possible that I didn’t do that sooner. As I browse through your site, I’m loving each post more than the next!

    Reply
    • Francois

      April 18, 2013 at 9:04 am

      Hi Janine!
      Love your blog!

      Reply
  7. Pretties and Pastries

    May 13, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    These are so sweet!! How creative to think of taking the “bite” out of one of the buildings. I will be trying out the chocolate roll out recipe this weekend!

    Reply

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