We recently celebrated one of my son's birthday in April, he turned the big double digits, ten years old. He is a fan of the video game Among Us, and he requested an Among Us themed birthday party.
He especially wanted Among Us Cookies, so I looked on Amazon for an Among Us shaped cookie cutter, I found one, but did not look up the dimensions. I just looked to see if it was available to arrive quickly and ship Prime. Well it arrived quickly, but I found out it was too small. Thankfully my my mother-in-law who is the cookie queen, improvised with another cookie cutter shape she had and she came to the rescue for the birthday boy's desire for Among Us cookies.
I still wanted to try and use the small cookie cutter, and thought if I used colored cookie dough I could eliminate the need to ice the cookies. Another dilemma presented itself, I searched up best way to dye cookie dough and of course all the sites recommended using GEL food coloring. Well because I did not think this all the way through and his birthday party was in a couple of days, there was no time to order the GEL food coloring and I did not want to go shop around, so I tried the food coloring that I had.
Well let me save you some hands on learning, if you want to color cookie dough... order GEL food coloring, don’t use regular food coloring, now I know why. The regular liquid food coloring changes the consistency of the dough, it made it too crumbly. It did not look too crumbly at first, but as I put it on saran wrap and wrapped it, I could tell it was too crumbly and even more so after sitting in the refrigerator over night, the dough was too dry.
I am so grateful for technology and people who share their experiences, which is a huge reason in why I blog, because I found that others had experienced the same problem using liquid food coloring and to fix the crumbly dough they used a spray bottle and lightly spritzed the dough with water. It actually worked! It still was a lot of work, and such a giant mess. I will never do that again.
Here is my favorite sugar cookie dough recipe which usually comes out perfect, of course without liquid food coloring.
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
3 1/4 cups of All-Purpose Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup of Butter Softened
1 1/2 Cups of White Sugar
2 Eggs
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Directions:
1. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together, set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Gradually blend in the sifted ingredients until fully absorbed. Cover dough, and chill for 2 hours or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with Parchment paper. On a clean surface sprinkle powdered sugar instead of the normal flour, roll out small portions of chilled dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut out shapes using cookie cutters.
3. Bake 6 to 8 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are barely brown. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
If you have an Among Us fan in your family I will share the links of things we did love as well as the link for the Among Us Cookie Cutter that I used, maybe you are more of a cookie expert and have worked with making small cookies. Many of my cookies broke, or the edge broke off, and I had to go one by one super slow, and use a butter knife to get the pressed dough out of the cookie cutter, it was way too time consuming.
I loved the Among Us T-Shirts we found, I also loved the birthday banner we use and was happy with the cupcake toppers I found. These are not affiliate links or sponsored in any way, just sharing what we used for our Among Us Themed fun.
Among Us Birthday Banner: https://amzn.to/2SkI0Fn
Cupcake Toppers: https://amzn.to/2RoBNIc
Among Us Pop Sensory Fidget Toy: https://amzn.to/2RpMoSV
Among us Men's T-Shirt: https://amzn.to/3vEIm8m
Among Us Ladies T-Shirt: https://amzn.to/3egRrOJ
Kids Impostor T-Shirt: https://amzn.to/3h5uBLX
Youth Impostor T-Shirt: https://amzn.to/3vG08Id
Cookie Cutter: https://amzn.to/3ti8WCD
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