Mario Kart Cookies
16 June, 2014
My boyfriend hosted a Mario Kart 8 tournament last weekend. I've been a huge Nintendo fan ever since I slowly appropriated each of my brother's consoles for myself. I wanted to bring a treat, and I figured what could be better than cookies shaped like the boost mushrooms! Get it? Because the cookies have sugar = energy = boost?
I started with an old sugar cookie recipe that has forever been my favorite. My family calls them "Waveguide sailing cookies" because apparently my parents first encountered them when sailing on my uncle's boat "Waveguide", but it is a fairly basic sugar cookie recipe. The dough is simple to put together, but the rest of the process can be lengthly, depending on how fancy you want to get.
Ingredients
Dough- ¾ cup soft salted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 jigger (3 Tbsp) rum
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour + extra for rolling
- Powdered sugar (several cups)
- Lemon juice or milk
- Other flavorings (vanilla, almond extract, orange extract, etc.)
Equipment
- Large bowl, mixing spoon, cup and spoon measures
- Rolling pin
- Baking sheet and parchment paper
- Cookie cutter or beer can + scissors + glue
- Oven at 350°F
- Food coloring (red, maybe yellow)
Tasty mushrooms, unlike the real kind