Play Dough Cookies

My 2 and 5 year olds had so much fun with this. We only chilled for about 45 min due to the excitement (consistency was good for play but not perfection) and baked Wilton pop sticks even though they said they weren’t for the oven (reviews said others had done it too). I liked the not too sweet taste and the kids didn’t complain. I’m sure we will do these again and will use gel food color next time. I did find they took much longer than 8 min to bake but ours were on the large side.

I made these for my girl friends son bday a while back. Everyone loved them. I love baking but I can't make cookies very well. Muffins, cupcakes, cakes, frostings.. just not cookies. But these I can. Mostly. I find that making a snake and then curling it warms the dough up too much and that makes the cookies spread flat instead of puff up, so it's hard to determine when the cookie is actually finished cooking. I ended up just putting the dough on a parchment paper slice, flattening and rolling it out and using a cookie cutter. It doesn't have that cute swirl pattern, but it tastes the same.

I made these for my girl friends son bday a while back. Everyone loved them. I love baking but I can't make cookies very well. Muffins, cupcakes, cakes, frostings.. just not cookies. But these I can. Mostly. I find that making a snake and then curling it warms the dough up too much and that makes the cookies spread flat instead of puff up, so it's hard to determine when the cookie is actually finished cooking. I ended up just putting the dough on a parchment paper slice, flattening and rolling it out and using a cookie cutter. It doesn't have that cute swirl pattern, but it tastes the same.

Made button cookies and they turned out soo cute! =] plus everyone loved them! =]

Just made these and loved them! I can't comment on taste yet as they just came out of the oven, but the process of making them was super easy and the results well worth the effort. A couple of 'tips': I used food coloring and thought that the colors were just as vibrant as food paste and it was easy to mix in. After the dough chilled for 2 hrs, I rolled out each individual color into the little balls so I had the same number of each. (I ended up with 18 instead of the 24 originally called for) I then stuck them in the freezer while in the process of rolling them out, pulling out just one of each color at a time. I didn't have any problem with them being too sticky. My 'rope' was much longer than 12 inches, probably closer to 18. And I found it helpful not to wrap it around to form the coil, but to start on one end and actually roll it up onto itself all the way to the other end - so the spiral was standing up, not laying flat. I will definitely be making these again in different colors for different celebrations. My four and two year old are thrilled with them!