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.
Heather Pasley says
It’s looks like a fun movie that we could enjoy as a family.
Michelle R says
Great recipe idea, love it! I am excited to see the Good Dinosaur because it comes our on my daughters birthday and it looks like another Disney/Pixar masterpiece 🙂
sharon daniels says
looks like fun for a sleepover!!
Ashley C says
I’m excited to see it because we love dinosaurs and this looks like such a cute, family friendly movie!
Carrie Conrad says
It looks super cute and my daughter is going to love it! I can not wait to watch it with her!
Tara says
It would make a fun family day!
ELIZABETH CURSON says
I’m excited to see it because I know my 3 kids would LOVE it !!
Meredith Miller says
my son has always loved dinosaurs.
Nicole Vosburgh says
My son is a big dinosaur fan and we’d love to see this together for mommy/son date night!
Dawn Monroe says
I’m excited because it’s a story about courage and friendship. My granddaughter is Dino crazy and is excited to see it.
heather s says
It looks like a fun family movie. I love animated films
Gina says
The animation and special effects are always something to be seen with dinosaur movies. I’m sure this one won’t disappoint – sounds like a great family movie night!
sandra says
because it’s a family movie about dinosaurs!
yanzhuo wei says
Move looks great, hope to watch it with my gf
Ahmed Asadullah says
Luv the dino cookies! Cannot wait to see this movie!