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Total Eclipse Half Moon Cookies

Nicole Hood — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:12:58 +0000

This upcoming Monday April 8th is the Solar Eclipse!

This astronomical phenomenon, where the Moon will cast a shadow over the sun, is expected to create a 117.9-mile-wide path of totality. For those lucky enough to be in the center of the path, a mesmerizing four minutes of total darkness will unfold. – https://www.arkansashouse.org/

We are lucky enough to live in The Natural State, aka Arkansas, where the path of totality runs through and I am excited to see it with my family in a few days!

To celebrate and explain the upcoming eclipse to my kids I made these Total Eclipse Half Moon Cookies to show the stages of the stunning experience.

These can be made with any cookie and all you need is two tubes of cookie icing.

Check out the details below and have fun experiencing this unique event on April 8th.

Total Eclipse Half Moon Cookies

Ingredients

8 baked round cookies I recommend light colored like sugar or white chocolate
7 oz tube black cookie icing
7 oz tube white or yellow cookie icing

Instructions

Once you bake your cookies let them cool completely.
Following my examples above in the chart and cookie photos above, decorate the eight cookies with the two icing colors showing the stages of coverage.
Wipe edges of cookies if icing spreads and let dry completely.
Use a round platter and arrange the cookies in the stages to display and serve.

You can use any round cookie but light colored work best for decorating.

I like sugar cookies or white chocolate macadamia nut.

Bake your cookies and let cool completely.

I always bake a couple extra in case one breaks or I mess up.

You need two tube of cookie icing.

I used white and black but you could always use yellow instead of white to represent the sun.

The cookie icing is thinner than regular jarred cake frosting and spreads better in my opinion.

But be prepared because it can get messy!

Following my examples above in the chart and cookie photos above,

decorate the cookies with the two icing colors showing the stages of coverage.

You need 8 decorated cookies total.

Let them dry completely.

Wipe the edges if needed.

Use a round platter and arrange the cookies in the stages.

Have fun explaining the eclipse and then eating these tasty treats!

This recipe and over 30 more eclipse themed food and activities are featured

on this roundup: 30+ Total Eclipse Epic Party Ideas .

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Sunshine Cookies

Nicole Hood — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:11:18 +0000

These sunny little cookies are a fun party dessert to make this spring and summer.

Sunshine cookies would be cute served at a summer picnic, eclipse party, space themed movie night, or just because!

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” – unknown

Sunshine Cookies

Ingredients

12 Golden Sandwich Cookies like Oreos
1 small bag of candy corn
24 candy eyeballs
1 tube black writing icing
1 jar lemon frosting
1 jar gold or yellow sanding sugar sprinkles

Instructions

Open cookies and spread frosting inside.
Press 5-6 candy corn, white tip side down, in the frosting so that the ends of the candy corn are visible outside of the cookie.
Press the top cookie back on then frost the top of the cookie.
Sprinkle on gold sanding sugar then add 2 candy eyeballs in the center and use the writing icing to add a mouth.
Serve this happy treat for a summer picnic, eclipse party, space themed movie night, or just because!

Set up a cookie decorating station and let your kids (and the adults) have fun making these simple treats!

My Ava is always the best helper- and taste tester!

Open cookies and spread frosting inside.

Press 5-6 candy corn, white tip side down, in the frosting so that the ends of the candy corn are visible outside of the cookie.

Press the top cookie back on then frost the top of the cookie.

Sprinkle on gold sanding sugar then add 2 candy eyeballs in the center.

Use the writing icing to add a mouth (be careful to add a little amount- it spreads).

Serve this happy treat for a summer picnic, eclipse party, space themed movie night, or just because!

“Look at the sunny side of everything.”

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