A tray of “Inside Your Feet” Cookies ready to take to school

The girls recently had a writing assignment that they had to do for school.  Karlie came up with an Inside Your Feet Cookie creation.  For extra credit they could make their creations and share them with their classmates and teachers at school.  We came up with a cookie creation using all the ingredients she mentioned in her writing assignment and they turned out fairly well.  The cookies were a perfect treat to share with her classmates instead of cupcakes on Halloween.  Brina also did a cookie creation and writing assignment called The Eye Ball.

A few days before the actual assignment due date we did a trial run and experimented to make sure we could make her “skin, blood, bones, and ankle joint” to reflect the Inside Your Feet cookie as accurately as possible.  We tried white sparkle writing gel (bottom right) but is blended too much, we tried straight white sprinkles (bottom middle) it was a lot of work and hard to get straight, we tried round white sprinkles (bottom left) too difficult to get straight, we tried pearl balls (top left) wasn’t too bad and would have been a more do-able option, and the final attempt was our favorite and probably the easiest option too, we used white writing frosting.

We didn’t have any feet cookie cutters and the stores we checked didn’t carry any so Jake made a set we could use with his 3D printer.  Once again it saves the day!

Up close of the Inside Your Feet Cookie

Inside Your Feet Items:

• Sugar Cookie Dough or Brownies(we did some of each)
• Red Frosting (or white frosting with red dye)
• White Writing Frosting
• Red and White Mint

Make your favorite sugar cookie dough or brownies (your can make from scratch or buy a mix).  The sugar cookies seemed to look more like feet with toes, but the brown mix had less steps to put together.  Make your sugar cookie dough, roll it out, cut out your feet, and bake.  OR Make your brownies first and cut out your feet after they are baked and cooled.

Once the cookies are cooled you can decorate by putting red frosting on the cookie.  We did not go to the edge of the cookie with the frosting because Karlie wanted to show the layers of the Inside Your Feet Cookie (bottom – skin, frosting – blood and muscles, white – bones, and mint – ankle joint).  Next add your red and white mint.  Draw your foot bones with the white writing frosting.

The cookies turned out well and were a big hit with Karlie’s class.  It was a lot of fun putting together with her.

What the different parts of the cookies represent:

• Bottom Sugar Cookie or Brownies- skin
• Red Frosting – blood and muscles
• White Writing Frosting – bones
• Red & White Mint – ankle joint