Pinata Cookies

A good friend from work showed me some cookies she found on Pinterest.  They are called Pinata Cookies and were being featured as fun Cinco de Mayo celebration cookies.  (Recipe can be found at www.sheknows.com/food-and.../cinco-de-mayo-pinata-cookies.)  Since my friend knows Tamara and also knows she is on a Spanish-speaking mission, we decided it would be fun to make these for her.  We weren't able to get together til a few weeks after Cinco de Mayo, but figured they'd still be a fun treat anyway.  :o)

I decided to do a trial run a few days before my friend and I were planning to make them.  I didn't have the recipe right with me, so I ad libbed and made a few things up as I went (including many mistakes), but they turned out.  Decent.  I guess...

I over-crowded the pan...  Oops!

Some have holes to make room for mini M&Ms.

finished product

So, I don't have a donkey cookie cutter, which would make it more pinata-y, but I figured the circle would be easiest.

The process was long.  Only getting 2 good pinata cookies out of the hours I spent was frustrating...  But, I learned a few things to hopefully help my friend and I make them.

After making them a second time, I have decided I am finished making pinata cookies for like ever.  I hate making them!  I may be willing to try using a method other than the way the blog calls for, but it's just really not worth it to me.  It's a super fun idea, though!  I hope Tamara enjoyed them!  :o)

Here are pictures from the 2nd go-around.

at least we got 6 cookies this time  lol