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[Izzy]

Household Accessories: Lego Minifig Cookie Cutter
Price: $9.99 AUD
Color: RED





They are approx 1 cm deep and 12 cm tall.



YUCK!  



I'm pretty sure they didn't actually ice these but just drew it on the packaging with paint or photoshop. Shameful!
The packaging these come in is SOOO ugly   , extremely $2 Shop style, and the picture of how to decorate are absolutely appalling. I get that these sorts of things are meant for a slightly younger market than me but seriously! LEGO, you should be ashamed. (Rant over) The plastic they are made of is slightly flexible, so if you squish it inwards you can make a really skinny minfig cookie, outwards a fat one, etc etc. The shortbread recipe I used doesn't rise very much at all therefore they kept their shape pretty well but you'd have to be very careful as you can easily lose the hands and head shape when the mixture rises.



SHORTBREAD RECIPE:

250 Grams Softened Butter
1 Cup Icing Sugar
1 Cup Cornflour or Riceflour
2 Cups Plain Flour

Pre-Heat Oven to 160 degrees
Sift Flours and Icing sugar together into a bowl, add softened butter and mix together
when a dough is formed place mixture on a lightly floured surface
Flatten with a rolling pin to about 1.5 cm thick
The mixture should hold together, but still be a little crumbly around the edges
Cut out your Lego minifigs with your Trademark Lego Cutters and place on a greased baking tray
Place in your pre-heated oven and bake for about 20 - 25 minutes or until a light golden color
Ice (or NOT) and enjoy!



Hooray! Cookies for all. I didn't even try to ice them (for fear of them looking like the ones on the packaging) and also because I think you get a better look at the shape with them being plain. Plus who puts icing on shortbread right?  

Edited by Cutlass_Iz, 10 July 2009 - 11:53 PM.

[Svelte]

Mz Iz, can we have a closeup of the poorly decorated icing figs on the packaging?

You *have* to whip out your piping bags and food colouring and make these babies shine. There's no avoiding it! What kind of desperate housewife are you if you don't do that?

Also, how high are the cutters? The scale was so big and things like the salt 'n' pepper shaker so teensy that I have no way of judging Lego merchandise any more

[Izzy]

Edited first post!

Edited by Cutlass_Iz, 10 July 2009 - 11:50 PM.

[ILikePi]

Thanks for the short review.  
[rant]
I have to agree, the packaging and those big iced cookie pictures are disgusting.     
The packaging looks like what you get at those dollar stores.
Those huge pictures just look bad...
[/rant]
So, do the cookies taste good?
Would you recommend it for the price?

cutlass_iz, on Apr 16 2009, 09:17 PM, said:

They are approx 1 cm high and 12 cm tall.

By high, do you mean 1 centimeter deep/thick?  

[Svelte]

That construction worker with the creepy, bulging eyes will haunt my nightmares tonight    

You also have to include your shortbread recipe as part of this review. Don't you know we're putting together the EuroBricks cookbook? I already submitted a cake recipe. As soon as we review all the *other* kitchen related products with accompanying dishes we'll have a bestseller on our hands!

Anyone who wants to make submissions should post a review or PM me

[ILikePi]

I've got a great cake recipe by GLaDOS:

one 18.25 ounce chocolate cake mix
one can prepared coconut pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all purpose flower
don't forget garnishes such as:
fish shaped crackers
fish shaped candies
fish shaped solid waste
fish shaped dirt
fish shaped Ethel benzine
pull n' peel licorice
fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment
candy coated peanut butter pieces; shaped like fish
one cup lemon juice
alpha resins
unsaturated polyester resin
fiberglass surface resins
volatile malted milk impoundments
9 large egg yokes
12 medium geosynthetic membranes
one cup granulated sugar
an entry called: "How To Kill Someone With Your Bare-Hands"
2 cups rhubarb; sliced
2/3 granulated rhubarb
1 Tbsp all-purpose rhubarb
1 tsp grated orange rhubarb
3 Tbsp rhubarb; on fire
1 Large rhubarb
1 cross Bohr hole electromagnetic imaging rhubarb
2 Tbsp rhubarb juice
adjustable aluminum head positioned
slaughter electric needle injector
cordless electric needle injector
injector needle driver
injector needle gun
cranial caps
and it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and oder control chemical's that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

I underlined all of the repeating things.

(You'll only understand this if you played Portal and watched this video: )

Edited by ILikePi, 17 April 2009 - 06:12 AM.

[OnHiatus]

Thanks for the review, I'll have to get myself some when I next place a shop at home order, given I'm about to get out of my rental dump and move into a luxurious new house with really high tech features like a working oven!

svelte_corps, on Apr 17 2009, 03:06 PM, said:

That construction worker with the creepy, bulging eyes will haunt my nightmares tonight    

The construction worker is actually the only one I like, it's the woman at the end next to him that's freaking me out.

[Izzy]

Yeah I LikePi that is 1 cm  deep / thick / high / downward /

Yes the cookies taste great and I would reccommend for the price as it is just another way of showing your love for Lego!

Leave no aspect of your life untouched by Lego!

(ooh! that's good I might use that )

[Svelte]

hewman, on Apr 17 2009, 04:25 PM, said:

The construction worker is actually the only one I like, it's the woman at the end next to him that's freaking me out.

Looks like Olive Oyl has had some work done to me.

[Izzy]

She definitely has had alot of 'work' done. I'd say she is based on the tw@t that designed the packaging.
I love   how they have drawn helmets and hair on the basic head shape. It makes them look severely disabled.