Black Panther Cookies
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • Sugar Cookie Ingredients
  • 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
  • 1½ C powder sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2½ C flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cream of tarter
  • 1 3 inch circle cookie cutter
  • 1 cookie sheet fitted with parchment paper
  • Royal Icing Ingredients:
  • 3 egg whites
  • ½ tsp cream of tarter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2½ C powder sugar
  • black gel food coloring
  • 2 disposable piping bags
  • 2 squeeze bottle
  • 1 can of silver cake edible spray
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. In a standing mixer, combine butter, powder sugar, egg and vanilla and mix on medium speed until combined and fluffy
  3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and cream of tarter.
  4. Gradually add in the flour to the wet mixture and mix on low speed until combined
  5. Once all the flour has been combined with the wet ingredients, sprinkle some flour onto a cutting board and knead with your hands till everything is combined
  6. Sprinkle flour onto the cutting board and roll out the dough to 2 inches thick
  7. Use the cookie cutters and cut your shapes
  8. Bake in the oven for 7-9 minutes or until slightly golden brown
  9. Place onto a wire rack to cool
  10. Royal Icing Directions
  11. Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, powder sugar and vanilla and mix on medium speed until stiff peaks form
  12. Split the icing into two bowls
  13. Add a few drops of black food coloring into one bowl and mix until combined. Add a few more drops as needed to get the shade of black you want.
  14. Scoop some icing into a piping bag and set aside
  15. Using the remaining black icing, add about 2-3 tbsp of cold water to thin out the icing. Pour thinned icing into a squeeze bottle and set aside
  16. Scoop some of the white icing into a piping bag and set aside
  17. With the left over white icing, add in 2-3 tablespoon of water to thin out the icing
  18. Pour icing into the squeeze bottle
  19. Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe a line around the outer edge of the cookies
  20. Fill in the cookies with the thin white icing
  21. Let cookies dry for about 4-6 hours
  22. Once the white has dried on the cookies, using the cake spray, spray the cookies to get a nice shine of silver
  23. Using the black piping bag, outline the base of Black Panther's mask.
  24. Fill in the outline of the mask using the thinned icing.
  25. Let icing dry for 3-5 hours
  26. Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe out the detail of the mask and pipe a line around the mask for the outer detail
  27. Using the black piping bag, pipe a line around the edge of the cookie
  28. Let the cookie dry for about an hour before enjoying!
Recipe by Afropolitan Mom at https://www.theafropolitanmom.com/black-panther-cookies/