These fun Good Dinosaur Cookies start with a sugar cookie dough that becomes a cute dinosaur foot!
If you have been following along and reading our posts about the making of The Good Dinosaur, you know how excited we are about the movie coming to theaters on November 25th.
The movie asks the question “What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?” Through the story of The Good Dinosaur we travel with an Apatosaurus named Arlo as he makes a human friend, Spot, on a difficult journey filled with dinosaurs, danger and the natural beauty of vast wilderness landscapes. On the trek Arlo learns to confront his fears and see that he perhaps is a little tougher than he originally thinks.
To get us ready for the movie, we created this fun The Good Dinosaur cookies recipe! It’s designed to look like the bottom of Arlo’s foot – complete with his not-so-little dino toes.
These cookies are super fun to make and the little ones can help mixing the dough and rolling it into balls for the feet and the toes.
They’re fun for any day and a hit at parties. Since dinosaur is a popular when thinking about first birthday themes for boys, these dino cookies will fit right in – but they’re loved by kids of all ages!
The Good Dinosaur Cookies Recipe
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 ¾ sticks unsalted butter, softened (14 Tbsp)
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
green food coloring
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. In a separate, large bowl beat together the sugar and butter on medium speed about 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and the eggs one at a time. Turn down the mixer to slow and slowly add in the flour mixture just until combined.
Divide the dough into fourths and remove one fourth from the bowl. Add several drops of food coloring to the dough and beat until color is evenly distributed. Add color until you get the shade of green you like.
Roll the green dough into balls about 1″ across. Roll the uncolored dough into little balls about ⅓″ across. Put the green balls about 2″ apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a baking mat. Place 4 of the little balls at the top side of each green ball. Using a flat-bottomed glass or bowl, press down on each cookie to flatten.
Bake approximately 11 minutes (rotating the baking sheet once) or until just barely beginning to brown. Don’t overcook! Let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely before handling.
You can find lots more The Good Dinosaur fun from Fandango Family with movie clips, fun facts for parents and more!
The Good Dinosaur Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ¾ sticks unsalted butter softened (14 Tbsp)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- green food coloring
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder.
- In a separate, large bowl beat together the sugar and butter on medium speed about 5 minutes or until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the vanilla and the eggs one at a time.
- Turn down the mixer to slow and slowly add in the flour mixture just until combined.
- Divide the dough into fourths and remove one fourth from the bowl.
- Add several drops of food coloring to the dough and beat until color is evenly distributed. Add color until you get the shade of green you like.
- Roll the green dough into balls about 1" across.
- Roll the uncolored dough into little balls about ⅓" across.
- Put the green balls about 2" apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a baking mat.
- Place 4 of the little balls at the top side of each green ball.
- Using a flat-bottomed glass or bowl, press down on each cookie to flatten.
- Bake approximately 11 minutes (rotating the baking sheet once) or until just barely beginning to brown. Don’t overcook!
- Let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely before handling.
Bruce says
my kids loved dinosaurs
Adrienne Gordon says
My kids want to see a good dinosaur movie.
Tabathia B says
My daughter loved the trailer and want to see what happens when dinosaurs aren’t extinct
sandyhills says
I would have to say looking forward to seeing something adventerous
harold says
I am excited because my Grandkids really want to see this movie, and I know it will be fun and exciting for us to go see!
Kristin S says
I’m excited because Disney Pixar makes some of the best children’s movies out there!
Jacob Fu says
So excited about this movie! We may have to make some of these cookies and sneak them in with us while we watch it ;P
Kelly D says
I would like to see this movie because I think it would be fun for my kids to imagine living with dinos.
Kelly says
We can’t wait to see this movie!!
shelly says
My daughter loves dinosaurs and she thinks Arlo is cute!
Mami2jcn says
The animation looks adorable!
Keri Justice says
Oh my gosh! These are adorable. I’m excited for this movie because it’s a movie I can take my whole family to see. It looks like it’s going to be a great movie.
helenlam says
We’ve seen the trailer and my son is very excited as he loves dinosaurs.
Victoria Willis says
I would love to see this movie! Disney has come such a long way and being a fan of dinosaurs since I was little I’d love to take my nephew to see it.
Kristin G says
I’m excited to see this with my son because it looks like a fun movie that he would enjoy. We love dinosaurs and I love the lesson of learning to confront your own fears.