Easy Grogu's Blue Cookies (Not Macarons!)

Hello there, Random fandoms and fellow enthusiasts! Are you ready to make an intergalactic treat that set the internet on fire? I am!

In Disney’s Star Wars TV show The Mandalorian, the little Yoda-creature is seen eating little, round, bright blue cookies. Everyone loved the cookies, and soon people were trying their hand at creating the little blue treats.

There’s just one problem with the most popular method: they’re macaron recipes.

French macarons are incredibly tricky. They are made with almond flour, and their success or failure relies on the air in the batter. They are very easy to mess up.

In addition to that, macarons are served like very fancy Oreos: as sandwiches filled with a frosting-like filling. This filling is what gives macarons flavor, so if you chose to make a macaron Blue Cookie, you would have to choose between being screen accurate, or having something that tasted good.

I wanted to put both of these characteristics in one, so I decided to try making sugar cookies and covering them with blue frosting. Though they could have been a little better, they look good and taste great!

Let’s get started!

What you need:

Ingredients for the sugar cookie recipe of your choice (mine was gluten free, so I’m not using it as an example here. Although, sugar cookies taste great with the addition of a little cinnamon, so there’s a suggestion for you.)

A smooth edged round cookie cutter, about 2 ½ inches wide.

Blue gel food coloring

A glaze recipe (mine was from the Betty Crocker Cooky Book, the Cream Icing)

Cooking tools needed for your recipes.

Follow your sugar cookie recipe. This is a fairly simple step, so I’m not filling in details. Be careful that you pick a recipe that makes a smallish batch, because you will end up with a lot of very small cookies!

When you finish making the dough, mix in blue food coloring, a little bit at a time. You can’t take the blue out, but you can always put more in. Remember, the main source of the blue color will be the icing, so you don’t need to make them super blue. You could even skip this if you wanted to.

Looking at my reference image, these cookies must be very small! To look like a normal size cookie in Baby Yoda’s hand, it must be only a few inches in diameter. Luckily, I have a lot of very small cookie cutters that I normally use for making things out of polymer clay. I washed this off (No clay in my cookies please.) and used it to cut out my cookies. With cookies this small, you do get a lot of cookies per batch! Be sure you have a system set up so you can get all of your cookies baked without taking the whole day to do it. Once your cookies are out of the oven, set them aside to fully cool before proceeding to the next step.

Get your ingredients together for your glaze recipe and start making it. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Mine was just confectioner’s sugar, cream, and vanilla. The thing to consider is that it has to be thin enough to go onto the cookies smoothly, but thick enough that it doesn’t slide off. Tint it blue with gel food coloring; liquid food coloring will change the consistency. When the blue is a nice bright sky blue like the cookie in the reference image, use an offset spatula, spoon, rubber scraper or whatever you have to cover the entire top of your cookie with blue icing. If your icing is thin enough, you might be able to just pour it. Leave your cookies out, not touching each other, until the glaze has set so the top is dry to the touch and your finger doesn’t leave a fingerprint when you touch it lightly.

There you go! You have an easy, delicious, screen-accurate Blue Cookie! Store your cookies in airtight plastic containers, with waxed paper between layers to prevent sticking. Thanks for reading this Instructable! If you make these cookies, please show me in the “I Made It” space below! I hope you and any foundlings in your care enjoy your Star Wars treats. Until next time, and may the Force be with you!