I have been so excited about my attempt at making Pinata Cookies!
I think these look amazing with all those colours.
I found the recipe while browsing Pinrest. Mine are no where near as neat as the original recipe but I think they still look so pretty!
Making the dough was quick and easy. You then added food colouring which is also easy.
I didn't have the gel dyes the recipe recommends. I just used the ones I had, Queen Food Colours. These are the same ones my Mum always used while I was growing up. They have been around a while and I think the result was still pretty good.
When you've coloured your dough you need to layer the colours in a container so the dough is wide enough to cater to the size of the cutter you are using. Check the recipe for more accurate instructions and then place the dough in the fridge for 4 hours to set.
When it comes out you need to slice it so you can see all the colours as I have done above.
I had left over dough that wouldn't fit so I made the extra cookies above.
I am very glad I did as I burnt this batch!!
You can't let them get too brown as the colours look faded.
I quickly learnt I had to watch them closely as they cook.
This was my main batch. Thank goodness I watched these closely as they cooked!
Before the cookies cool you need to cut out the shapes and make a hole in the centre of every third cookie shape where the M&M's go.
I would use a bigger cutter than mine because it doesn't allow for much room to put the M&M's in. Using mini M&M's would have worked better in mine as the smaller chocolates have more room to fit more in and will spill out easier. The larger M&M's get stuck.
You let the cookies cool, then following the recipe, glue them together with a simple icing mix: milk and icing sugar. Place the M&M's inside and sandwich the final cookie in place.
Let the icing set and your done!
Follow the recipe, not my instructions and read it carefully.
I found assembling them a little tricky because my shapes where too small and my M&M's too big!
When I make them again I will try make my cookie dough thinner as this is a lot of cookie for one person and they are very sweet.
Once you have finished there is a lot of left over cookie from cutting the shapes out. I crumbled my left over cookie and mixed it with the left over icing and placed M&M's inside it to make truffles. These where also very sweet but yummy!
I hope to make them again one day - maybe when my baby has a birthday!
