Dinosaur Cookies

If you have a kid who is into dinosaurs, like a lot of kids including mine, then this dinosaur cookies recipe is for you! It’s really simple and a lot of fun to make, trust me they’ll love it!

This is a great way to teach them about baking and palaeontology at the same time!

You have two different options for those cookies and you can make both at the same time! You can make little dinosaur footprints or make a full dinosaur fossil.

All you need is cookie dough and little plastic dinos!

First, make your cookie dough. Nothing hard here but I am adding my sablé cookies recipe at the end of the post so you don’t have to go around and look for one. But if you want you can use your favourite sugar cookie recipe or sablé recipe. That will work great as well! As long as it’s a plain cookie recipe. Don’t try putting any chocolate chips or nuts in the dough, that will ruin the print!

Then, roll down the cookie dough 1/2 cm thick and cut little circles or ovals with a cookie cutter or any round cup or lid. Put the circles on a baking sheet with a parchment paper. For the next part, get your kids to help, that’s the fun part!

Simply press the plastic dinosaurs down to the cookie dough to make a print. Not too hard so you don’t go through the dough but hard enough to make a nice thick print. If you’re doing the footprints, you can make the little dinos step into cocoa powder or matcha powder before doing the print so it will make a fun coloured print.

Bake your dinosaur cookies, like you would any other cookies, until the edges turn golden. And voila! You will have delicious little fossil to eat!