Celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with another recipe highlighting one of his books. The One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Cookie recipe is a fun recipe that kids will love and easy to make.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Cookie Recipe
March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' birthday and we are celebrating some fun recipe's like this One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish cookie recipe. They're fun to make and fun to eat while reading some of his famous books with the kids. We already shared our Green Eggs and Ham Cookies recipe and will sharing more like the Lorax Cupcake recipe, Oh the Places We’ll Go cupcakes, One Fish, Two Fish Kettle Corn, and Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat treats.
Red Fish Blue Fish is just one of the fun rhyming books for beginners that Dr. Seuss came out with. He's known for many more. "This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot Of fish there are."
Makes 2 ½ dozen!
Dr. Seuss Cookie Ingredients:
- 3 C flour
- tsp baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- One Cup soft unsalted butter
- 1 C granulated sugar
- An egg
- Cookie Cutter: fish shape
One Fish Two Fish Cookie Icing Ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- 2 C powder sugar
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 disposable piping bags with #2 tips
- 2 squeeze bottles
- red blue and black gel color
- black edible marker
Red Fish Blue Fish Cookie Directions:
Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
Add eggs...Continue to mix.
Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together.
Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
the batter. (if needed).
Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
(About 10 minutes).
One Fish Two Fish Royal Icing Directions:
Combine all ingredients except the colors into a standing mixing bowl.
Mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form.
Split into 4 bowls.
Leaving one bowl white, add the colors to 1 of the 3 bowls, red in one, blue in the other and black in the last.
After that Using the piping bags, add a little bit of the gel colors to 1 of each bag.
With red and blue icing remaining in the bowls, add 1 teaspoon of water to thin out the icing.
Pour icing into a squeeze bottle.
Outline the fish in black icing.
Fill in with the thin red or blue icing and let sit on a cookie sheet for 4 hours.
Using your edible marker, add some shading to the top fin, the tips of the tails and the middle part of the fish.
Add a half smile and outline of the eyes.
Draw the flipper with some shading.
Using the white icing, add a small dot for the fish eyes.
Add the pupil using the black icing.
Let sit for another hour.
Finally Enjoy!
RED FISH BLUE FISH DR SEUSS COOKIE RECIPE
Celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with another recipe highlighting one of his books. The One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Cookie recipe is a fun recipe that kids will love and easy to make.
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients:
- 3 C flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 C soft unsalted butter
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- Cookie Cutter: fish shape
Icing Ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- 2 C powder sugar
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 disposable piping bags with #2 tips
- 2 squeeze bottles
- red blue and black gel color
- black edible marker
Instructions
- Cookie Directions:
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- Add eggs...Continue to mix.
- Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
- Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
- the batter. (if needed).
- Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
- Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
- Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
- (About 10 minutes)
Icing Directions:
- Combine all ingredients except the colors into a standing mixing bowl.
- Mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form.
- Split into 4 bowls.
- Leaving one bowl white, add the colors to 1 of the 3 bowls, red in one, blue in the other and black in the last.
- Using the piping bags, add a little bit of the gel colors to 1 of each bag.
- With red and blue icing remaining in the bowls, add 1 teaspoon of water to thin out the icing.
- Pour icing into a squeeze bottle.
- Outline the fish in black icing.
- Fill in with the thin red or blue icing and let sit on a cookie sheet for 4 hours.
- Using your edible marker, add some shading to the top fin, the tips of the tails and the middle part of the fish.
- Add a half smile and outline of the eyes.
- Draw the flipper with some shading.
- Using the white icing, add a small dot for the fish eyes.
- Add the pupil using the black icing.
- Let sit for another hour.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Times do not include drying time.
Nutrition Information
Yield
30Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 195Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 26mgSodium 98mgCarbohydrates 30gFiber 0gSugar 20gProtein 4g
Tamra Phelps
I really like this cookie! I love Dr. Seuss, so these cookies really appeal to me.