Starship cookies

 

Starship cookie MK 1 did not survive reentry.

2 hours later, starship cookies MK 2 emerged. Some survived re-entry while some did not. The trick was using shortbread instead of cookie dough. The home made cookie cutter was a failure. The way they get fine details in shortbread is by baking them upside down, in a metal mold. Then, a carefully timed process cuts apart the cookies before they harden.

Lions can't fabricate a metal mold. It's clear that peppridge farm & trader joe don't bake their shortbread upside down. The trick might be refrigerating the dough to stiffen it, but it has to stay cold on the sheet.

The lion kingdom used a mold to create the rings. A 2nd mold cut the outside shape, but ended up filling in the rings in the process. It might work better if a single mold creates the rings & cuts the shape, but this would require getting a flat sheet of known height to begin with or the excess dough would have to go somewhere.

They tasted pretty horrible, but that was beside the point.  This batch used 2.5 cups of flour, 1 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar & had a lot of left over dough.  It was too hard.  A more reasonable batch size would use 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup sugar.