• Preheat the oven to the temperature listed on the cookie dough wrapper.

Shaping the Solar System Cookies

• Shape the dough into planets and the sun. We used different size glasses to get the different shapes. Cookie cutters will work too. The solar system will obviously not be to scale, but we tried to make some planets smaller than others. The sun should be the largest cookie by far.
• The cookie dough will spread while it bakes, so make sure there is plenty of space between them. I didn't think about that and ours pressed together.

Bake your Solar System Cookies

• Pop the cookies in the oven. The cookies will vary in size, so ignore the baking time and just watch the cookies closely. Stay in the kitchen!
• The smaller cookies will finish first, so just take those out and put them on a cooling rack while the larger cookies continue baking.
• Let the baked cookies cool.

Mixing the Frosting for your Solar System Cookies

• Put some white frosting into a small bowl. Add a few drops of frosting until you achieve the color you're after. You can always marble the frosting using a toothpick, but I wanted my boys to do this project independently, so I let them look at the images on the sheet and try to match the colors on their own. Repeat this step until you have all the colors for the sun and planets.

Decorating your Solar System Cookies

• Once you have your frosting mixed, you can now decorate the sun and each planet. We set each one in order based on size. Once we had them set by size, they went to work on each planet.
• We also used a small ziplock bag to pipe some white frosting for Saturn. We just added a small amount to a bag and cut one corner tip off.