Captain America Cookies
These Captain America Cookies are perfect for snacking while watching Captain America Civil War or any of the Cap movies. They would also be fun for a party with a patriotic theme, like July 4th!
This recipe is easy, and these cookies are so delicious! With only six ingredients in the cookie, this is a recipe you can use anytime you want to make sugar cookies.
For the Captain America Cookies, you’ll need the Shooting Star-Shaped Cookie Cutter. It’s only about $6.50 on Amazon.
These cookies have an intricate design, but it’s easy to create. Get the kids in the kitchen to help. They will be so excited at what they created! Imagine if you had a superhero party and also made these Iron Man cupcakes! Superhero Mom status!
Ingredients
For the Cookies, you will need flour, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, and eggs.
For the icing, you’ll need egg whites, powdered sugar, cream of tartar, vanilla, and red and blue gel food coloring.
How to Make the Cookies
Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth, not grainy to the touch, in a mixing bowl.
Add all 4 eggs at one time and continue to mix.
Add the vanilla and continue mixing.
Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Roll the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball and put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 325º.
Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin. Work some flour into the batter if it’s too sticky.
Roll the dough out on the cutting board.
Using the cookie cutter begin to cut out your cookies.
Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment-lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
(About 10 minutes).
Icing Directions
Combine all ingredients (except your food coloring) in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes.
If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
Divide the icing into 3 equal bowls.
The first bowl of icing remains white.
To the second bowl of icing, add several drops of red gel food coloring. Stir to mix.
In the third bowl, add several drops of blue into the icing and mix.
Spoon each color of icing into individual frosting bags with a #2 tip.
Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
Squeeze the majority of the icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water to this icing and stir to mix the water and icing together.
Using an edible marker, draw on Captain America shield onto the star cookie.
Using the white icing, fill in the star and one of the rings.
Wait 10 minutes, and using the red icing, fill in the rest of the rings.
Using the blue icing, fill in the circle around the star.
Using the white icing again, pipe a line next to the red ring on the tail part of the star.
Using the red, pipe on a thick line, like shown in the pictures.
Repeat with blue and white to create a red, white and blue stripe.
Let dry for 4 hours before enjoying!
Ingredients
- Cookie Ingredients:
- 5 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
- 2 C granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- Cookie Cutter:
- shooting star cookie cutter
- Icing Ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- 2 C powder sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- red and blue gel food coloring
Instructions
- Cookie Directions
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth, not grainy to the touch, in a mixing bowl.
- Add all 4 eggs at one time…Continue to mix.
- Add the vanilla. Continue mixing.
- Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin. Work some flour into the batter if it’s too sticky.
- Roll the dough out on the cutting board. Using the cookie cutter begin to cut out your cookies.
- Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
- Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10 minutes).
- Icing Directions
- Combine all ingredients (except your food coloring) in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes.
- If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
- Divide the icing into 3 equal bowls.
- The first bowl of icing remains white.
- The second bowl of icing, add several drops of red gel food coloring. Stir to mix.
- In the third bowl, add several drops of blue into the icing and mix.
- Spoon each color of icing into individual frosting bags with a #2 tips. Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
- Squeeze the majority of the icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water to this icing and stir to mix the water and icing together.
- Using an edible marker, draw on Captain America shield onto the star cookie.
- Using the white icing, fill in the star and one of the rings.
- Wait 10 minutes
- Using the red icing, fill in the rest of the rings.
- Using the blue icing, fill in the circle around the star.
- Using the white icing again, pipe a line next to the red ring on the tail part of the star.
- Using the red, pipe on a thick line, like shown in the pictures.
- Repeat with blue and white to create a red, white and blue stripe.
- Let dry for 4 hours before enjoying!
