Steve Made D&D Cookies (and I helped)

If you read this blog regularly, you know that I love making pretty decorated sugar cookies. My partner, Steve, looooves gaming of all kind, including Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Never did I think the two would meet!

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How It Began

Just around dinner time, Steve announced that he was going to make decorated sugar cookies for his D&D group meeting the next day.

“Um,” I stammered.  “Decorated sugar cookies usually take a few days.”

He said, “I already made the dough.”

Well, alright then.  I’m an optimist!  “Let’s do it!!”

And so we took the frozen dough out of the freezer and thus began the marathon of cookie making/decorating in concert with bathing and putting our son to bed. 

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What I Learned

As we giggled over our terrible piping skills (even as we ran out of royal icing close to midnight) I remembered that so much of the joy of making is not in the outcome, but in the process and the company.

Like many of you, I’m sure, the pandemic has transformed “making” into a solo experience.  No in-person classes.  No crafty get togethers.  No quilting retreats.  No random encounters with other artists in the art supply shops.  I loooove Zoom and the online community, but I really do miss sitting next to a stranger for several hours and becoming friends because we both like to make things.

But enough melancholy meanderings.

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Here are the Cookies

They’re meant to look like a 20-sided D&D die:

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A Happy Ending

We made some little star cookies for our son with the scraps of leftover dough:

I give us an “A” for effort.  Now that we’ve made these dice cookies once — and tried three different methods of decorating — I know how we *should* have approached the decorating.  So we are ready to make even better cookies for the next D&D game!  The most important thing, of course, is that the cookies tasted great!

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Make Your Own D&D Cookies

If you want to make your own D&D cookies, these are the supplies I recommend:

• Your favorite sugar cookie recipe. I’ve tried a few and this one is a current fave.
• I wish we had a cookie cutter like THIS ONE that cuts AND stamps your cookie.
• But you can use a regular hexagon cookie cutter like we did.
• I like to make royal icing using Wilton meringue powder and water.
• I’m a huge fan of tipless piping bags.
• The gel food coloring from AmeriColor is the best!
• When decorating cookies, it’s always good to have an angled spatula and sugar stir needles on hand.

Happy baking and thanks for stopping by!