Saturday, May 5, 2012

How I Made Pinata Cookies... Longest. Process. Ever.

Have you see the Pinata Cookies that are all over Pinterest yet? (PS you can follow me on Pinterest HERE) Well Veronica and I thought it would be fun to attempt this baking project (why is it that we always try to bake the most difficult things?!). Little did we know, what a bitch these mini cookies would be!

First, it started with having to find mini M&Ms. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find mini M&Ms when it's not around a holiday? I'll tell you... very hard! I went to multiple stores trying to find these and even spoke with an M&M representative. She was of no help to us! Luckily Veronica was in line at Target, when she spotted tubes of mini M&Ms at by the food area. She literally whispered to me over the phone that she could not run over to the counter fast enough because she was afraid someone else was going to swoop in and buy them all. She calls me asking how many she should buy, I said maybe 3. What does she buy? THE ENTIRE SUPPLY! LOL

Because we were tight on time Vero prepped the dough the night before. These were just good old fashioned sugar cookies. She said it took forever, because she had to split the dough into multiple piles, dye them, and then smash them into mini loaf pans. Then she had to refrigerate them. I guess this process takes quite a while.  The only casualty that day was that her hands were dyed a multitude of colors.

Don't worry we have tons of pics and videos!


The next night when I came over, Veronica and I removed the dough from the pans and cut it into thin slices, as seen above. Then we put about 10 slices on a cookie sheet and popped them in the oven. This is when we had to start moving fast and we implemented what I like to call a Hott Mess Assembly Line. As the cookie slices were coming out of the oven, we had to cookie cut them with our "burro" cookie cutter - yes, you must attempt to roll the "r." We also had to remember to switch the cookie cutter over because a dumb pinata cookie consists of not just 1 or 2, but 3 pieces of cookie. After the cookie was cut, we had to remove the center of one of the horses so we could make a pinata. I know this make no sense and that is why I provided a video.


See what a mess we are! HA! Now that everything's cut into pieces, we have to assemble. We did this by attaching a full piece and cut out piece with frosting. Then after the frosting was dried, we add in the M&Ms and seal the cookie with frosting and a top layer of "burro". Are you confused yet? Check out the next video...

AMAZING RIGHT?! Longest cookie baking experience ever. 

Did I mention that we are never going to bake pinata cookies ever again. We only made 12 cookies, but used 3 pans of dough. So much cookie was wasted making these pinata cookies. The amount of left over cookie was crazy, we had cookie coming out of our ears. Everyone was eating left over cookie (IT WAS SO GOOD!).

All of that, for only this! 
Leftover cookie pieces
Fat-est cookie EVER.
YAY!
Dr. Todd and Uirrel
Uirrel likes it!
We're so proud of ourselves for our hard work.
Yummy
Break it open
M&Ms inside!

Never Again


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