Shark Sugar Cookie Decorated With Creamy Royal Icing

Who doesn't love cute looking sugar cookies dipped in creamy icing. I saw this cute shark cookie somewhere and decided to make it myself. I have designed a 3d printed cookie cutter to cut these cookies, you can download the cookie cutter 3d file for free from this link https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4276053

If you don't have access to a 3d printer use the paper template as a guide to cut your cookies.

I will not go in detail of how to make sugar cookies or how to make royal icing. If you are interested you can watch videos by Julia Musher.

shark cookie cutter.pdf
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Supplies

For cookie base:

4 cup sugar

1 pound or 450 gm butter

2 tbsp clear vanilla extract

4 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

8 cups of flour

for Royal Icing

2 pound or 900 gm powdered sugar

5 egg white

gel food coloring black/grey and pink

4mm sugar pearls for eyes

Step 1: Make Dough for Cookie

mix 4 cups of sugar with 1 pound of butter(at room temp).

add 2 tbsp clear vanilla and 4 eggs, mix well

add 1 tsp baking powder and 7 cups of flour, mix everything well

if the dough is slightly sticky than don't need more flour but add more flour in small steps until it sticks only tiny bit to your hand.

wrap the dough in plastic and put in freezer for 4 hours

Step 2: Roll Cut and Bake

Roll the dough to 1/4 inch thick, dust the surface with flour

use the cutter to cut the shapes and stack the cookies on parchment paper in baking tray.

If you are using paper template roll the dough on parchment sheet and freeze the rolled dough for 1-2 hours, it will be easy to cut the shapes. use a sharp knife to cut the cookies.

After all the cookies are cut freeze them for at least 2 hours before baking

I have baked my cookies @350 C for 10 min more or less. It varies on oven, thickness of cookies their size and placement. Keep a look out while baking.