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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been going through Marvel withdrawal since last summer. So much so that on my last trip, I loaded up my iPad with The Avengers and settled into a chair at the Orlando airport to watch it for probably the hundredth time.
Well, Avenger Geeks, our wait is over. Last week Marvel dazzled us with our first major glimpse at Thor: The Dark World, which hits theaters in November (two words: Loki’s. Hair.) This week, the third installment of Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man lands.
Hopefully, the film will answer the question we’ve all been wondering: if the Mandarin (which, if I’ve gleaned correctly, is the villain facing off with Iron Man this bout) is really such a Big Bad, then why, why, why wouldn’t the Avengers reassemble to handle it?
These cookies may not be strong enough to fuel Tony Stark’s heart or suit of voice-activated robotics, but they should be good enough to get you through a pre-premiere Iron Man marathon or a midnight showing.
Let’s make some Iron Man Arc Reactor Cookies!
To start, you need 12-20 baked and cooled sugar cookies.
Crunched on time: use a slice-and-bake dough (about 30 minutes total)
Going the extra mile: pick your favorite sugar cookie recipe (most require at least an hour or 12 to chill the dough before you can start baking)
Seriously slacking: bakery-made sugar cookies (30 seconds needed to open the package)
Supplies:
1.) Mix the food color with about 1 TBS of cool water. Test on any broken cookies you may have to make sure you like the way the color shows up. You may need to add a few more drops of color or another ½ tsp of water.
2.) Brush any crumbs off the cookie. Start by painting a small dot (smaller than an M&M) in the center of the cookie.
Trace a slightly larger circle around the dot, leaving about an inch from the edge of the cookie to the ring. Connect the dot to the ring by dividing the space into thirds. These short lines should be slightly thicker than the line you used to paint the ring. At this point, your cookie should essentially have a blue poke-ball in the center.
Paint small rectangles around the edge of the cookie, leaving a small space between each. Probably, the first one or two you’ll mess up on spacing until you get the hang of it, unless you have a great eye for design.
3.) Stack them up on a plate or load up a plastic bag to smuggle into the movie theater to enjoy!
Recipe by Emma Carew Grovum. She is a data journalist working at the Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, D.C. She previously worked as the Digital Editor for The Cooking Club of America and blogs at kitchendreamer.blogspot.com Emma loves Star Wars, pandas and all things Joss Whedon. Find her on twitter at @emmacarew.
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