Let's make the dough! Cream the sugars and butter together, add egg and vanilla. Mix in flour, salt, baking powder. You have yourself a nice little dough!
Now the math comes in. In the last try at this, I failed miserably at part, but since I only have three colors, it should be much easier.
Here is your spreadsheet to help you out.
Divide the dough into three parts keeping in mind the percentages that you need for each. Wrap the largest in plastic wrap. Take the middle sized piece of dough and color it blue. Take the smallest and color it black. Wrap each piece in plastic wrap and let dough rest in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Prep your Play-doh fun factory by spraying it with some non stick spray - you will thank me later!
Using a little more math, we need to divide up the dough so that we will get the proper number of pixels in our cookies. Take the number of plain pixels for example, and divide it by 4 since we will get 4 pixels per press through the Fun Factory. In this case we get 18.something, meaning we will need 18 and some extra to splice the last piece. Black is easy - 6. And Blue is 10 and change.
Make sure you have a lot of room to do this part. We have a number of silicone mats that we will placing out pieces out on so they do not stick. Run your dough through the Fun Factory in this order: Plain, Blue, Black. If you don't do this, you will get dough that is multicolored.
Once you get all your pieces made, it's time to assemble. Start with the bottom of the picture and build up. Take your time and make sure that each pixel lines up. Square the cookie each row to make sure you are making a consistent shape. I also gently pressed the new layer to the previous layer.
Wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours - I left mine overnight.
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. Remove your cookies from the freezer to a cutting board. Cut the cookie block in half to see how you did!
Slice cookies and place on a sheet pan prepped with a silicone mat. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until light golden brown. Transfer to a cooking rack and Enjoy!
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