Augmented Reality Cookies
This guide will explain how you to make your own augmented reality marker cookies.

The recipe is based on Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from The Joy of Cooking.
1. Beat until soft:
     1 cup butter/soy margarine
2. Add gradually and blend until creamy:
     2 cup sifted sugar
3. Mix in:
     2 beaten egg
     2 tsp vanilla
     (1 tsp grated lemon rind or cinnamon)
4. Sift before measuring: (if you don’t have a sifter, don’t worry, they will still turn out great)
     2 ½ to 3 cups flour
     ½ tsp salt
     3 tsp baking powder
5. Mix together the dry and wet ingredients.
6. Split the dough into two equal parts
7. Melt 1 ounce chocolate in a double boiler and let slightly cool.
8. Add the chocolate to half of the dough.
     To make the dough darker, add equal amounts of red and green food coloring until the dough is a chocolate brown color.
9. Cool in the freezer for 15 minutes.
     To cool quickly put the dough in plastic wrap and flatten by hand before putting it in the freezer.
10. Place the dough between two sheets of plastic wrap and roll out to be 1 cm thick.

     A good trick for this is to find two objects that are 1 cm thick to act as a thickness guide for the rolling pin. I used magazines that were around the right size.
     It’s important that you roll out your light dough to have at least 23cm in length so that you are able to cut the required parts.
11. Cool in the freezer for another 20 minutes.
12. Using a ruler, measure and cut the strips (see parts image).

     Dark
     1x 1cm
     2x 2cm
     2x 4cm
     Light
     1x 1cm
     1x 2cm
     2x 4cm
     2x 6cm

13. Carefully assemble the strips into the cookie roll.


14. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze overnight.
15. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
16. Carefully cut thin slices of off of the cookie roll and put on a buttered cookie sheet.

     I put the knife in the freezer right before cutting it. The colder the dough, the easier it is to work with/ the better the markers will work.
17. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes.
     The bake time really depends on how thin you slice your cookies, I recommend doing a test batch and adjusting the cooking time between batches.
     Make sure you put your cookie roll back in the freezer whenever you aren’t cutting them.

Enjoy!

photos by Barrett Hanrahan and Tellart