What happens to our pets when we leave for the day? We’ll find out when Secret Life of Pets opens in theaters this week.
To celebrate the movie, here’s a way for man’s best friend to become a silhouetted snack. These fun and tasty cookies come in the shapes of powdered sugar poodles, literal chocolate Labs and even a little gray schnauzer. And they all hang out off the sides of mugs full of sweet vanilla milk.
Secret Life of Pets Cookies and Milk
You’ll need:
Vanilla milk (recipe below)
Black food-gel dye
Cocoa powder
Powdered sugar
Cookie dough ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Vanilla Milk recipe:
16 ounces of milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon sugar
Directions:
1. In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy, then add the egg and vanilla.
3. Slowly add the flour mixture until just combined. Separate the dough into fourths.
4. Wrap up two of the fourths in plastic wrap and refrigerate until you are ready to use.
5. For the third section add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and knead until combined to make the chocolate dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
6. Take the last section and add a few drops of black food-gel dye. Knead until the dough is gray. Wrap in plastic wrap and keep in the refrigerator.
7. When you’re ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep baking sheets with Silpats or parchment.
8. Roll out the dough to about 3/8 inch thick, then flour and press the cookie cutter into the various colored dough. Gray for schnauzers, plain vanilla for the poodle and golden retriever and chocolate for a Labrador or collie. Make a small 3/16-inch cut in the belly area for the cookies to hang later.
9. Bake for 10 minutes and let cool on a wire rack.
10. Once the cookies are cool, dust the poodle with powdered sugar.
11. Hang the cookies off the sides of cups filled with vanilla milk to serve.
