As a child of the 90s, the franchise was simply part of the cultural zeitgeist—impossible to avoid but easy enough to admire from a distance. But I never had a proper Pokémon phase growing up.
My husband, however, is majorly into Pokémon Go, to the point where he has a phone swing and a burner phone just to rack up more steps. The dedication is equal parts amusing and endearing. He’s not a ranked player or anything, but we all have our hobbies, right? His enthusiasm eventually inspired this cookie set, proving that sometimes the best creative ideas come from the passions of those around us.
And this feels like my cutest set yet!
Supplies
- Brown Sugar Cookie Base
- Royal Icing
- White gel food coloring
- Red gel food coloring
- Blue gel food coloring
- Yellow gel food coloring
- Black gel food coloring
- Toothpick or scribe
- Edible marker/pen
- 8 (or more) tipless piping bags (and scissors to cut them)
- Paper towel
Starter Pokemon Cookie Designs
This set makes 5 main cookie designs: a pokeball, pikachu, charmander, squirtle, and bulbasaur.
This set allows you the opportunity to try a new technique – icing transfers! Specifically for the pokemon’s eyes, you will put parchment paper over the eye design (included in the free guide) and decorate the eyes on the parchment paper. The icing dries pretty fast and by the time you’re ready to decorate the cookies, you can use the icing transfers.
Key Takeaways
I don’t make practice sets before I put together a design, so there’s always something I’ll learn and would want to change in the future, here’s those things:
- Not over saturate my black icing. I knew it as soon as I mixed it and, frankly, I should have tossed it and just mixed some of my leftover icing after I did the other parts. But instead I was cocky! And I paid the price with color bleed (most prominently seen on charmanders eyes, but also when I did the pokeball cookie initially).
- Putting icing transfers (with black) onto a still wet cookie. Again, look at poor charmander’s eyes! I left the cookies to dry overnight and in the morning the black icing from the eye was drawn into the orange. Placing icing transfers on wet cookies can still work, just avoid it with color rich ones!
- Practice piping the faces. While I’m very happy with the set, I think if I had practiced the face design on a paper towel or parchment paper first, it likely would have turned out just a smidge better on the cookie!