This isn’t a baking blog, but the baby yoda cookies I made this Christmas were so popular on Instagram that I was “forced” to share. 😉
I used an angel cookie cutter as my “yoda” after seeing this inspiration on Reddit. I didn’t need to cut the heads off my angels with a lightsaber, though — they worked just fine as-is.
Here, Junior Mints become baby yoda’s wide, adoring eyes, with a sweet icing smile and some characteristic wrinkles.
They’re fun to make and (almost) too cute to eat.
Ingredients
- Angel cookie cutter (mine was 75 cents at Walmart!)
- Pillsbury pre-made sugar cookie dough
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla or almond extract
- 2 tbsp meringue powder (available at Walmart, Michael’s, Amazon, and some grocery stores)
- Food coloring (green and brown)
- Junior Mints candies
- Icing piping bags (or, Ziplocks with a hole cut in the corner)
- Pre-made black icing tube
How to Make Baby Yoda Cookies
1. Roll out sugar cookie dough according to package instructions and cut into angel/yoda shapes with cookie cutter. I like mine just slightly taller than 1/4” thick.
You can make your own dough, too, but in my many years of baking sugar cookies for Christmas I realized I can’t tell much of a difference!
The real flavor is in the homemade icing, which IS better than anything pre-made.
If the dough becomes too sticky as you work, add more flour and chill the dough between batches.
(Buy the Pillsbury pre-made dough if you can. This is one of those times when the brand name is significantly better than store brand.)
2. Bake at 425ºF for 8-10 minutes, being careful not to brown the bottoms too much or they’ll be harder than Beskar armor.
Allow cookies to cool completely, at least 45 minutes (the length of a Mandalorian episode.)
3. Make the royal icing by combining powdered sugar, vanilla/almond extract, meringue powder, food coloring, and 6-8 tbsp of water.
If this is your first time making royal icing, you can find meringue powder at Walmart, Michael’s, or Amazon, as most grocery stores don’t carry it. It helps the icing dry hard and shiny.
It can be tricky to get the perfect consistency, so be prepared for some tasty trial and error! 😋
4. Outline the faces in green icing using a piping bag or Ziplock. Then, spread the icing with a butter knife. Repeat for white “collar” and brown “robe.”
If you’re a Christmas music kind of person, play “What Child Is This?” as you work. 😉
5. While the green icing is still tacky, place two Junior Mints for the eyes and dot with white icing for pupils.
6. Use a toothpick to draw forehead wrinkles and ear outlines.
I couldn’t decide if I liked the wrinkle details or not, so I left my half my batch smooth-faced. They’re all cute!
7. Finally, pipe on the smiles with the pre-made black icing.
(Making solid black icing from scratch requires a LOT of food coloring, so this is the one pre-made color I use. It’s a small enough detail that you won’t notice the difference in flavor.)
I realized that doing the eyes, wrinkles, and smiles in THAT order worked best, as the “face” will slide around a bit while you’re decorating and turn a smile into a smirk (or worse.)
8. Turn on an episode of The Mandalorian and ENJOY! This is the way.
Let me know if you try these cookies — I’d love to see them.
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