Yoshi's Cookies

[Retriever II]

For the checkerboard cookies I used this recipe:
https://itadakimasuanime.wordpress.com/2...x-cookies/

For the rest, I used this recipe (without doing the sandwich thing):
http://www.reynoldskitchens.com/recipes/...r-cookies/

As it turns out, there are also real Yoshi's Cookie recipes, that this person translated from Japanese. I did not try them:
http://darkut.free.fr/Articles/cookie_recipes.htm

I used raspberry, apricot, and mint jams that I found at the store (mint is pretty green but a bit weird for flavor). I added the jam to the cookies before baking, and afterward sprinkled some granulated sugar to help firm them up a bit more.

To get color on the ring and Yoshi cookies, I brushed them with an egg yolk wash before baking, and sprinkled the rings with raw sugar crystals.

I designed and built the cookie cutters to make the shapes



The pattern for Yoshi is up on my resources repo:
https://github.com/jaquadro/CraftResourc...basaur.pdf

The other 4 will be up soon. I will also be following up with a full instructional blog entry for making cookie cutters. I'm teaching a workshop on them in less than 4 weeks at MAGFest.