Emoji Cookies
Here’s the latest of my attempts to emojify every round object in my path. This month: cookies.
DIY Emoji Cookies – what you need:
- sugar cookie dough
- plain icing
- yellow food coloring
- other food coloring (optional)
- food coloring markers (like these) in various colors (at least black, blue, red)
Step 1: Bake cookies
This is pretty standard. However you normally bake sugar cookies, go for it. I used a mix, but if you’re feeling motivated you can go the from scratch route. And there’s always those slice-and-bake cookie dough rolls too…
Step 2: Frost Cookies
Add a few drops of yellow food coloring to plain white icing and stir. Once it gets to your desired color, add a thick layer of icing to each cooled sugar cookie. You can also make some icing in different colors for the emojis that aren’t just yellow smiley faces. (purple devil faces, anyone??)
Step 3: Decorate Cookies
Then it’s the fun part. Take the food coloring markers and add facial features to make the cookies look like your favorite emojis. You need to use a really light hand while doing this so the frosting stays in tact. The faces will probably be a little messy (as evidenced by mine…) but they’ll still be easy to recognize and pretty stinkin’ cute. Almost too cute to eat. Almost.
