Alice in Wonderland 'Eat Me' Cookies
These Alice in Wonderland 'Eat Me' Cookies come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and each has a unique flavor. Be very careful in choosing which one to eat first, you might find yourself taking on a variety of shapes and sizes as well!
Yields 2 to 3 dozen
Things you'll need
Ingredients Vanilla Sable- ¾ cup butter
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- ¼ teaspoons fine sea salt
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 10 tablespoons sugar
- ¾ cup butter
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 3 ounces chocolate, ice cold and grated
- Electric hand mixer
- 2 large mixing bowls
- 2 medium mixing bowls
- Rubber spatula
- Whisk
- 2 cookie sheets lined with parchment paper
- Plastic wrap
- 10 royal icing colors in decorating bags fitted with #2 tip: white, coral, sky blue, yellow, dark purple, purple, lavender, red, fuchsia, dark brown
- Rolling pin
- Cutting board
- Cookie cutters: small star, fluted round, 3-inch round
- Sharp Knife
- Small brush
- Plastic wrap
Let's get started!
Vanilla Sable- Preheat oven to 325ºF.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk salt and flour until well combined.
- In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla extract. Combine wet and dry ingredients.
- Form the dough into a disc and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for an hour.
- Roll out dough to ¼ an inch thick and cut out circles (PICTURE at 6:02).
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Use a cheese grater to grate 3 ounces of a frozen chocolate bar and then freeze the grated chocolate.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda.
- In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to beat butter and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
- Combine the flour mixture and the chocolate with the butter mixture and mix until well combined. Form the dough into a disc and wrap it in plastic. Refrigerate until completely chilled.
- Roll out dough to ¼ an inch thick and cut circles and stars (PICTURE at 6:15).
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Create a template by drawing a 5-inch by 15-inch rectangle onto a piece of parchment paper.
- Shape the vanilla dough neatly inside the rectangle and then gently flatten with a rolling pin. Wrap with parchment paper and return it to the fridge.
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 with chocolate sable.
- Remove vanilla dough and use a ruler to measure out ½-inch markers on the short sides of the rectangle (PICTURE at 4:22).
- Use a sharp knife and a ruler to draw a line across each half-inch mark. Use these scored lines as guides to cut the rectangle into strips (PICTURE at 4:27).
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 with chocolate dough. Remember to save your excess cookie dough!
- Use egg wash to paint the insides of each strip of dough and then glue the strips together, alternating chocolate and vanilla (PICTURE at 5:16). Wrap in parchment and freeze for 20 minutes.
- Cut cookie squares about ½-inch thick. Place cookies about an inch apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
Time to decorate!
- Prepare the royal icing and scoop each color into its own piping bag fitted with a #2 tip.
- Pipe an outline on each cookie and allow to dry before flooding (PICTURE at 6:50).
- Use the various colors to pipe on the details of the cookies to make them look like the ones in the movie (PICTURE at 7:09).
- TaDa! These Alice and Wonderland 'Eat Me' Cookies are ready to take you down the rabbit hole!
A re-creation of the Alice in Wonderland 'Eat Me' Cookies that Alice finds in the White Rabbit's house.
