Potter Puppet Pals!

Today's post involves a bit of catch-up. If you have been keeping up with my blog, you'll know that back in January I had my Harry Potter Party. Originally, I had intended to serve these Potter Puppet Pal sugar cookies at the party, along with all the other HP-themed foods, but, I ran out of time to finish them. Instead, I ended up icing them two days later and I'm finally posting about them today.

If you aren't familiar with Potter Puppet Pals, it's a live action comedy series created by Neil Cicierega. The main characters of Harry Potter appear as hand puppets (except for Neville, who shows up as a butternut squash :D). My favorite episode is "The Mysterious Ticking Noise", which according to Wikipedia is the 15th most viewed video on Youtube. I attached it to the bottom of this post for those of you who haven't seen it.

By the way, there's no Fred and George in Potter Puppet Pals. I just thought it was funny that 2 Rons = Fred + George, who happen to be my favorite characters in the HP series :).

Shaping Dough

1-inch circle cookie cutter
chopstick
pearl milk tea straw
knife

Before baking, the dough needs to shaped into the heads of all your characters. The picture above shows how to make the general head shape. Cut out 1-inch circles with your cookie cutter. Take your pearl milk tea straw and cut off a bit of the end.

Use this straw end piece to make lots of tiny circles from your dough, pushing them out of the straw with a chopstick. These tiny circles can be split into two with your knife to make ears. From this shape you can make Voldemort and Ron, or you can add on more (shown below) to make the heads of the remaining characters.

To make Hermione's head, make a 1-inch circle with your cookie cutter. Split this circle into 8 equal sections with a knife. Take two of these wedges and add them to the general head shape to make Hermione's hair. To make Snape's head. Take one of the tiny straw circles, split it in half and use those halves to form the bottom portion of Snape's hair. And lastly, to make Harry, take five of those tiny circle halves and add them to the top of a general head to form his spiky hair.

Making Voldemort

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
green food coloring
yellow food coloring
red food coloring
black food coloring

To make Voldemort's green skin color, take a tiny bit of white icing and mix in a drop of green food coloring and a drop of yellow. Take a very small bit of that yellow green icing you just created and mix it into a larger portion of white icing, adding more if necessary to create the color you want. Now with a spoon, fill in your cookie with the light green skin icing. Next, make red icing and create the eyes. Lastly, make black icing, place it in a small sandwich bag, and squeeze out the mouth and the lines for his cat-like pupils.

Making Ron

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
blue sprinkles
yellow food coloring
orange food coloring
pink food coloring
black food coloring

To make the peach skin color to be used for Ron, Hermione, and Harry, make some white icing. Take a little bit of that white icing and place it in a separate bowl. Mix in yellow, orange, and pink food coloring. Now, take a little bit of that mixture and add it to the rest of your white icing, adding more if necessary to get the skin color you desire. Cover your bowl of icing until ready to use.

Now make yellow orange icing and lightly trace out his hair with a toothpick or spoon. Fill in his hair by following your outline. Wait for the icing to dry. Next, fill in the rest of the blank face with the peach icing you made before. Add on your two blue sprinkles for eyes. Wait for the skin to dry. Pipe on a black icing smile. Then make a bit of pink icing and dot on four freckles on each cheek with a toothpick.

Making Hermione

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
purple sprinkles
pink food coloring
orange food coloring
brown food coloring
black food coloring

Make some brown icing. With a toothpick, lightly trace out the outline of Hermione's hair. Next, with a spoon, fill in your hair outline. Then, fill in the remaining cookie with the peach icing you made above. Add on the two purple sprinkles as eyes. Wait for the peach icing to dry. With a spoon, make a small pink circle on each cheek. Lastly, pipe on a black icing smile.

Making Harry

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
orange food coloring
pink food coloring
black food coloring
red food coloring

Make black icing. With a toothpick, lightly trace out Harry's bangs. Then, with a spoon, fill in this outline with more black icing. Wait for it to dry. Then, use the peach icing you made above to fill in the remainder of the cookie. Wait for the peach icing to dry. Place some black icing in a sandwich bag and pipe out the glasses frame and the smile. Wait for the black icing to dry. Fill in the glasses with some white icing. Lastly, make some red icing and pipe out his lightning bolt scar.

Making Snape
sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
green food coloring
blue food coloring
black food coloring
white sprinkles

To make Snape's blue-green, "Squidward" skin color, first, make some white icing. Place a little bit of the white icing in a separate bowl and mix in green and blue food coloring. Take a little bit of the blue-green icing and mix it back into the larger portion of white icing, adding more if necessary to get the color you desire. Cover the icing until ready to use, to prevent drying out.

With a toothpick, lightly trace out Snape's hair with black icing. Then, fill in that outline and wait for the black icing to dry. Next, use the light blue-green icing you made to fill in the remaining blank cookie. Wait for that to dry. Then, pipe out Snape's unibrow and two black circles under the unibrow as shown in the picture. Place one white sprinkle in each black icing circle for eyes. Lastly, pipe out his nose and mouth.

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