Cookie Monster Icebox Cookies

Cookie Monster Slice and Bake Cookies

I wondered why I couldn't find where anyone had made Cookie Monster Icebox cookies. I know now. It's really, really, really hard.

Ingredients

1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
1 stick margarine (1/2 cup)
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 lemon's worth of zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 egg
3 1/2 cups flour
food coloring: blue and black

1 extra egg to glue the dough
Powdered sugar in case the dough starts sticking.

Optional: a second batch of white dough

Note: I made a second batch of dough the same day with coconut oil and egg whites. I used this for the whites of the eyes. It's not essentially necessary. It's just something that happened in the course of baking. I decided to try to make the second dough as white as possible for the eyes. It turned out.

Short Instructions 

Creaming method, color the dough, assemble Cookie Monster, freeze

Long Instructions

Step 1: Beat butter, margarine and sugar until light.

Step 2: Beat in baking powder, salt and lemon zest.

Note: I had lemons left from another recipe. So lemon it was.

Step 3: Juice the lemon. Measure out one tablespoon. Beat juice and egg in.

Step 4: Beat in flour.

Color the Dough

Step 1: Separate white dough.

Step 2: Add smurf's blood to rest of the dough.

Step 3: Split in about half and add black to one half.

Assembly

Step 1: Refrigerate the dough.

Step 2: Roll black into two snakes. These will tell you the maximum length of your resulting log. Refrigerate.

Step 3: Wrap the black log in white dough. Use your egg glue liberally. Use it to glue the dough to the black and use it to seal the seam. The seam can be sealed by rubbing the dough with egg. Refrigerate.

Step 4: Shape his mouth. Roll out a thicker log of the black. This can be the remainder of the black because you don't need it for anything else and you can trim the ends later. The log should be fairly thick. At least a couple inches. Estimate based on the size of the cookie you want to make. Shape it into the smile. Gravity will make the bottom flatten a bit naturally. Refrigerate.

Step 5: Roll out a thin section of blue and trim. The goal is the cover the bottom of his mouth. Use the egg glue. Fill in the gaps as best you can. Refrigerate.

Step 6: Fill in the top of his smile with a log of blue. Use the egg glue. Fill in any gaps with blue dough and egg glue. Refrigerate.

Step 7: Trim off the ends of the head log and the eye logs.

Step 8: Glue the eye logs to the top with a lot of egg glue. These will be a bit harder and they will want to come off. So really paint the glue on. Freeze the Cookie Monster.

Cooking

Step 1: Preheat oven.

Step 2: Pull the log from the freezer and immediately slice. This is easy with a bench scraper and strong downward force. But if you don't have one, make do.

Step 3: Bake. Between 10 and 15 minutes at 375. Pull as soon as the top is set and the bottom is starting to develop gold around the edge on the bottom.