How to makes these festive Star Wars cookies

Star Wars Christmas Cookies (Credit: Charity Mathews/foodlets.com)

Looking for a Christmas cookies that are simply out of the world? Try these Star Wars Christmas Cookies!

The idea comes from foodlet.com's Charity Mathews.

What you'll need:

Star Wars cookie cutters

Food coloring

Chocolate cooking icing in a piping bag

Baking pans

Rolling pin

Parchment sheets

Your favorite sugar cookie recipe or store bought mix

The force (just kidding ... kind of)

Here's a step-by-step guide to making your new holiday treat!

*Hint, directions are in the image captions*

Prep your batch of sugar cookie doughnone

Separate your dough into three bowls, then add red and green food coloring to achieve the three tones you want. Then get your cookie cutters readynone

Drop balls of dough (about 1 inch) in random placement on a non-stick surface like a parchment sheetnone

Then start flattening with your rolling pin. All the pieces should start coming together (and if they don’t, move them a little closer together)none

Once you’ve got a nice flat surface, of about 1/4-1/2 inch thickness, start pressing your cookie cuttersnone

These particular cutters are two-sided. You cut them with one side, then flip the cookie cutter over and press the other side into the dough. That’s what gives them the detailnone

And what happens to all the scraps? Just reuse them! Piece everything together and start againnone

Our sugar cookie recipe baked at 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes for chewy, perfect resultsnone

When the cookies are cool, use a tub of cookie icing to fill in the details, tracing along the lines from the cookie cuttersnone

Are you ready to makes these?none

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Check out foodlets's other fun winter-themed ideas like melting snowmen or sparkly Santa cookies.

Charity Mathews is an ABC11 contributor. For more fun food ideas follow her on Instagram or Facebook.

Editor's note: The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of ABC11.

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How to makes these festive Star Wars Christmas Cookies