Wookiee Cookies

Usually I make Bossk Brownies for May the 4th, Star Wars Day. I decided to make Wookiee Cookies instead and who wouldn't enjoy these crisp golden brown cookies that are chewy, no pun intended, on the inside, with a tall galactic glass of milk. 

May the 4th be with you all! 

Wookiee Cookies

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makes about 3 dozen cookies

2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup milk chocolate chips 

1 cup semi-sweet dark chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 375ºF (190ºC). 

2. Put the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Set aside.

3. Put the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in another mixing bowl. Using the electric mixer set on high speed, beat together until well blended and creamy, about 3 minutes. (You can do this with a wooden spoon, but it will take longer.) Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and stir with the wooden spoon until blended. Stir in the chocolate chips.

4. Scoop up a rounded tablespoonful of the dough and drop onto a baking sheet. Repeat until you have used up all the dough. Be sure to leave about 1 inch between the cookies because they do spread as they bake.

5. Using pot holders, put the baking sheets in the oven. Bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes.

6. Again, using pot holders, remove the baking sheets from the oven. Lift the cookies from the baking sheets with a spatula, and place on cooling racks. Let cool completely.

Twin Sun Toast

This is my version of the Twin Sun Toast from the Star Wars cookbook. The original has you cutting out two round circles in the bread, using a small cookie cutter. The smallest cookie cutter I had and the shape of the bread enabled me to make the two twin suns. Instead I made one sun, the egg, in each piece of bread. All was good and one might say that the two cut out pieces of bread could pose as the twin suns.

Essentially you use a small cookie cutter to cut out two or as in my case one, circles in each slice of bread. Place the cut out pieces aside. They may be served buttered or dry on the plate. Add a good amount of butter in the bottom of a pan. Let is melt completely and move the pan around to coat the bottom of the pan evenly. Then place the bread inside the pan. Break the an egg each of the holes that you cut out using the cookie cutter. Let the egg set a bit, become white. Then this is the real tricky part you have to flip the bread with the egg over. Be careful. The egg yolks may break but never mind. I don't think your stomach will complain. You want the egg to set a bit more or to your liking. Then remove from pan and serve. 

Now my eggs stuck a bit and I added sufficient butter. The yolks were a bit runny. So  I toasted the round cut out pieces of bread and served them so you could dunk them in the yolks. This makes for a great weekend breakfast. 

The Star Wars Cookbook

Kids... and grown-ups can have a laugh with this cookbook. With all it's play on words like the Boba Fett-uccine, Tusken Raider Taters and Wookie Cookies one can see the direction the force is going. The pages are sort of plastic coated which makes this easy when small hands are in the kitchen cooking. Repelling spills. This cookbook covers breakfasts, beverages, snacks and sides, main courses and desserts. Offering approximately seven recipes per chapter and most of them can be done within 25 minutes! As it's stated in the introduction "The force inhibits all realms, including the kitchen." 

The food photography is fun. They use action figures to demonstrate the recipes. One can only think that someone was having a lot of fun putting this cookbook together. 

I have made the Sandtrooper Sandies, Wookie Cookies, the Bossk Brownies and a version of the Twin Sun Toast, all very edible. I know there is a second cookbook. Both would come in handy if hosting a Star Wars themed party. And for the collectors out there, there is a retro Star Wars cookbook kit that come with character shaped cookie cutters. - JW