Hey guys it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I have been playing a lot of app games lately and you guys know me, I love games
with food in them. And, I’ve fallen in love with one recently called Farm Heroes.
They just came out with their new game Farm Heroes Super Saga,
I really enjoyed playing this game and worked with King Games who supported
this video to make some treats today. For those of you who might not be
familiar with Farm Heroes, it’s a farming themed match game, it’s very fun
and easy to play. You need to match 3 Cropsies to collect them and put them
in your crate. And, if you get 4 Cropsies in a 4 square, they become
Super Cropsies, and in this case bigger is better!
You can also get more points this way.
So in honor of the new game, today we are gonna be making Cropsie Themed Cookies.
Let’s get started!
The recipe that we’re gonna be making today is a vanilla almond homemade cookie
recipe, this one is from the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook.
The things you will need, will be: 3 Cups of all purpose flour, 3/4 cup of
almond meal, 1-1/2 cups of sugar, 2 sticks of salted butter at room temperature,
1/8 a teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of ground
nutmeg, 1/2 a teaspoon of almond extract, 1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
and 2 eggs. Then you will also need some different cookie cutters for the
Cropsie Characters. In the game they are so cute! Over here I’ve got a water
drop cookie cutter, a plum, banana, pear, carrot… I think this one was
technically a strawberry, but it looks just fine as a carrot!
And, a little tomato. Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do in a medium bowl, we are gonna whisk
together our dry ingredients, flour, almond meal, salty-salty, baking powder
and nutmeg. Then whisk together until well combined and then we’re gonna set
it off to the side.
Next, in a large mixing bowl we are gonna cream together our butter and sugar.
We are gonna mix together until everything is light and fluffy.
Now we are gonna mix in our eggs 1 at a time.
Add your first egg, mix it up, then scrape down the sides, add your second
egg, mix it up, and scrape down the sides.
After we have mixed in our eggs we are going to add both of our extracts,
vanilla and almond, then mix together until well combined.
Everything is mixed together and now we are gonna add our dry ingredients
to our butter mixture, I’m gonna be adding it 1/2 at a time so that it
won’t create a big dust cloud. Mix together, then scrape down the sides
then pour the other 1/2 in, mix together and scrape down the sides.
Mmmmm! Our cookie dough is now ready, I’ve divided it into 2 parts, we are
gonna shape the dough into 2 discs and wrap them up with food safe plastic wrap
and then pop these in the fridge for about 1 hour to chill.
Our dough is ready, it has chilled in the fridge, and now we are gonna roll it out.
And I’ve got it right here, we’ve gotta unwrap it and I’m gonna do a little bit
of what I call baking flair.
Just grab it like this, and give it a tug!
We’re gonna take a little pinch of flour, sprinkle it down on top of the surface
so that the dough won’t stick. Put a little flour on top, a little flour
on my rolling pin. And then I’m gonna roll it out about 1/4 inch thick.
Alright, this is looking good, I’ve got all the cookie cutters over here,
and we’re gonna cut out as many as you can. I’m gonna start with the little plum.
I’m gonna place it right here on top of a baking sheet lined with a piece
of parchment paper. Then I’ll do a little carrot, a tomato. There’s plenty
of cookie dough to make many of these little Cropsies, but I’m just placing
6 Cropsies on each baking sheet so that they have plenty of room.
After you have your cookies on your baking sheet you’re gonna pop these into
the freezer for 10 minutes to set, and then we’re gonna bake them.
You’re gonna heat your oven to 350 degrees and bake for about 12-13 minutes.
Once your cookies have baked and had plenty of time to cool, now it’s time
to decorate. Over here I’ve got a bunch of royal icing in different
plastic baggies, with tips at the end for a little bit more design control.
The colors that I dyed the royal icing are red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
purple, white, light brown and this is very dark brown.
Over here on this cutting board, I’ve got 1 of each type of Cropsie Cookie.
And the first thing that we’re gonna do is pipe an outline.
So I’m gonna start with blue and we’re gonna do the little water drop
character. Just pipe an outline all the way around.
Then we're gonna pipe outlines on each of our cookies using the correct colors.
On some of the fruits and vegetables, I’m not gonna pipe the stems.
Once your cookies are outlined, I’ve let them sit out for just a few minutes,
so that the outline layer of royal icing hardens a little bit, so it will
hold shape. Now we’re gonna fill them in, which in the baking world is
called flooding. I like to make zig-zags, back and forth, back and forth
and then using a toothpick, moving the icing around so that it’s all touching,
all connecting. Then we’re gonna fill in the rest of our cookies, continuing
to match the colors. After you’ve filled in all the cookies, again you’re gonna
want to let them set for a few minutes, I like to take my finger and gently
touch the top, and if I feel that it’s hardened and dry, I know I can decorate
some more! Now I’m gonna take my white royal icing, I’m gonna pipe all of their
little eyeballs. All of the eyeballs for the different Cropsie characters are
different, so I’m just looking on my phone and trying to match what they look like.
Time for more decoration details on the eyes. We are gonna be piping iris’ and
the pupils on each little character.
It’s just good to note that their iris is gonna be the same color as their body.
Lastly I’m just taking a little white royal icing and I’m just putting a little
dot on each eyeball.
These are so cute, they’re really starting to look like the Cropsies, look,
look at that little face! Aw!
But, they’re not done yet we have a few more details. Again, using the dark brown,
I’m gonna pipe a line on top of each eyelid, just giving it a little bit more
personality and definition. And our little plum gets some eyelashes!
Oooh-oooh-oooh!
These are starting to look adorable! We just finished the eyes, now we are going
to decorate the mouth. All of our characters are going to get a light brown
mouth, with a top line of dark brown for definition.
And some of the characters will get a little white royal icing, for their teeth!
Final decoration step is we are going to ice the little stems on all the
Cropsies characters. Remember, the water does not have a stem, and the pear is
the only one that we are gonna be icing brown.
But the rest of them are all green!
Ta-da! Here are the Cropsie Themed Cookies, from the new game
Farm Heroes Super Saga, that we made today!
Each little Cropsie has it’s own personality, the 2 that are my favorite, that
I think I’m the most like, are the pear and the banana!
The banana is excitable and a little bit crazy, and the pear is sassy, feisty
and kind. If you guys play the game, let me know in the comments down below which
little Cropsie personality you are most like. Maybe you’re like the carrot,
who’s confident, cheeky, ah-hee-hee-hee! And happy!
I’ll be taking lots of pictures of these cookies and posting them on Facebook,
Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter, and if you guys make these, please take a
picture and send it to me, I just love seeing your baking creations, it just
makes me happy, it makes my day.
A big thank you to King Games for supporting and collaborating with me to
make this video. If you guys are interested in checking out this cute game
I’ll be putting a link down below.
And, if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!