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Updated on March 12, 2020 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Faux Food Cookie Recipe

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faux food cookie recipe

Faux Food Cookie Recipe

A awesome cookie dough recipe by Joyce Marcellus used in her taco cake tutorial! This baked cookie looks just like a crunchy taco shell!
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Prep Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 27 minutes minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 4 cups
Calories: 1543kcal
Author: Liz Marek

Ingredients

  • 32 oz Butter room temperature
  • 32 oz Granulated sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
  • 35 oz AP flour
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 3-4 tablespoon Poppy seeds
  • Ivory and yellow food color
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Instructions

  • Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer bowl with a paddle attachment. Mix until creamy and throughly incorporated. Make sure to scrape sides and mix for a few more seconds.
  • Add eggs slowly and mix.
  • Add vanilla extract and mix.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the salt and flour and slowly begin to add the flour mixture to the mixer bowl on low speed. Make sure to scrape sides.
  • Once fully mixed, add the food colors.
  • Lastly add the poppy seeds and mix.
  • Wrap in clear plastic wrap and store in the fridge for 30-60 minutes.
  • Bake at 350ºF/176ºC for 12 minutes rotating the pan at the 6 minute mark for an even bake.

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Nutrition

Calories: 1543kcal | Carbohydrates: 147g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 103g | Saturated Fat: 60g | Cholesterol: 337mg | Sodium: 2030mg | Potassium: 243mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 104g | Vitamin A: 2970IU | Calcium: 229mg | Iron: 4mg
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Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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