Super Smash Bros!!!

Crossovers are pretty awesome. By crossovers I mean everything from fictional crossovers to designer collaborations, like The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones, Girl Scout Cookies in Dreyer's Ice Cream, Justice League, Alice in Wonderland for Paul & Joe, and Christian Louboutin meets Ladurée, just to name a few. One of the best crossovers had to be Super Smash Bros, the video game of my childhood. It had a wide cast of characters from a variety of different video games, from Mario to Captain Falcon, Pikachu to Link.

Continuing from the last post on Controller Cookies, with my mind geared toward video game baking, I forged on and made Super Smash sugar cookies in the shape of all the characters from the original N64 version of the game, modifying the characters to fit my cookie style. I considered making cookies for the newer versions of the game, SSB Melee and Brawl, just because there are so many more characters to choose from, but I find my heart still lies with the original. Making these cookies definitely had me reminiscing of those halcyon afternoons spent hanging out friends, playing this very game.

Super Smash Bros Cookies

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
food coloring
1-inch circle cookie cutter
knife
pearl milk tea straw
nonpareil sprinkles
toothpicks

Basically for each character, I started out with a circle for the face. To make the characters unique, I just added on other parts to the dough or altered that circle before baking. And as usual, I made most of the character ears by cutting out little circles with a pearl milk tea straw and cutting the circles in half. The circle divided in eighths above shows how to make the different character parts from 1/8 of a circle by cutting the parts differently with a knife. For example, Donkey Kong's tie was made by trimming the top corner and the two bottom edges of 1/8 of a circle. Link's ears and hair were made by rounding the point of a third of that 1/8 of a circle.

This time there were way too many characters for me to draw out my usual how to decorate step-by-step pictures. Instead, here for each character, I have a pre-baking illustration that shows how the dough should be cut and pieced together to make the cookie's shape and a post-baking illustration of the fully iced cookie. Under the titles, I have a list of the order the characters should be iced and decorated (assume that you wait for that layer of icing to dry before moving on the the next step in the list). Let me know if you need any clarifications!

Jigglypuff
1) Pink all over
2) Black ears + Swirl
3) Blue sprinkle eyes
4) Red mouth

Pikachu
1) Black ear marks
2) Yellow everywhere else
3) Purple sprinkle eyes
4) Black nose + Mouth lines
5) Red cheeks

Kirby
1) Pink body + Arms
2) Red Shoes
3) Purple sprinkle eyes
4) Black portion of mouth
5) Pink tongue + Cheeks

Ness
1) Red hat
2) Black hair + Sideburns
3) Peach face
4) Blue hat brim
5) Purple sprinkle eyes
6) Black smile
7) Pink cheeks

Luigi
1) Green hat brim
2) Black sideburns
3) Peach face + Ears
4) Green hat (leave empty circle in middle)
5) Fill in circle with white
6) Peach nose
7) Moustache
8) Blue sprinkle eyes
9) Green "L" on white circle

Mario
1) Red hat brim
2) Black sideburns
3) Peach face + Ears
4) Red hat (leave empty circle in middle)
5) Fill in circle with white
6) Peach nose
7) Moustache
8) Blue sprinkle eyes
9) Red "M" on white circle

Yoshi
1) Green through middle
2) White above and below green
3) Green outline above eye white
4) Red spikes
5) Blue sprinkle eyes
6) Purple sprinkle nostrils
7) Black smile

Samus
1) Yellow eyepiece
2) Green eyepiece ourline
3) Red "circle" (leaving portions for gray empty)
4) Fill in empty portions with gray
5) Green sprinkle eyes
6) Black lines on gray

Captain Falcon
1) Black eyepiece
2) Peach face
3) Yellow outline + Eagle
4) Red mask
5) Yellow "ears"
6) White sprinkle eyes
7) Black smile

Fox Mccloud
1) Peach face + Ear bottoms
2) Brown middle face outline
3) Gray mask parts
4) Blue sprinkle eyes
5) Black eyebrows + Nose + Mouth

Donkey Kong
1) Peach face
2) Brown head point
3) Red tie
4) Purple sprinkle eyes
5) Pink sprinkle nostrils
6) Black smile
7) Yellow "DK" on tie

Link
1) Yellow hair
2) Peach face + Ears
3) Green hat
4) Purple sprinkle eyes
5) Black eyebrows + Mouth