Turtle Icebox Cookies

I was browsing through some cookbooks and I noticed a recipe for icebox cookies. The book included different shapes that could be made with the dough, like swirls and checkerboards. That got me thinking: what about some other shapes, perhaps animal cookies? I thought back to my childhood and remembered that I found cartoon turtles relatively easy to draw, just a bunch of circles, dots, and lines. Which, more importantly, means that they adapt to icebox cookie form very well. So, I took my old turtle, spruced it up a little, and turned it into a cookie :).

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Step 1: Getting Started

The great thing about making these cookies is that you don't need a turtle shaped cookie cutter nor do you have to make any frosting. Just a few basic tools, the cookie dough, some sprinkles, and a bit of chocolate are all that's necessary to decorate and shape these cookies!

P.S. The icebox cookie dough recipe is adapted from The ATK Family Baking Book.

Ingredients
3/4 cup + 2 tbsp flour (for the green dough)
1 1/2 cups flour (for the white dough)
2 tbsp matcha powder
16 tbsp (2 sticks) butter, softened at room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 egg yolks, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
black nonpareils
4 oz. semisweet chocolate

Tools
round 1" cookie cutter
large straw (like one used for pearl milk tea)
plastic wrap
knife
piping bag

MsMissyG says: Jan 13, 2012. 7:58 AM

your cute little drawings on each step make it really clear what you mean and i love the thought of using Matcha powder. I dont like nonpearls, but i think ill just add two extra dots of chocolate...or turn two miniature chocolate chips upside down. love these :)