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How to Make Pixel Cookies - Detailed

For a friend’s birthday, I decided I would take on the challenge of making pixel cookies. Figuring that I’ve experienced the tediousness of the perler beads crafts, I thought I was prepared for this endeavor, but I was kind of wrong. Please read the whole post as it explains my mistakes in great detail.

Let me preface this event with the fact that I’ve never made cookies by myself. In fact the last time I remember making cookies with someone was waaaay back in elementary school. But since I stumbled upon these instructions, a lot of it seemed intuitive to me. Let me walk you through the process.

The Ingredients
ingredients

From that website:

2.5 cups flour
3/4 cups sugar, blitzed in a food processor until fine (I didn’t do this)
1/4 tsp salt
two sticks of butter, cut into 1/2 inch pieces, at room temperature (more on this later)
2tsp vanilla extract
2tbs cream cheese, softened

hand held mixer

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For a friend’s birthday, I decided I would take on the challenge of making pixel cookies. Figuring that I’ve experienced the tediousness of the perler beads crafts, I thought I was prepared for this endeavor, but I was kind of wrong. Please read the whole post as it explains my mistakes in great detail.
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