It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

Nana came to our house Friday night bearing gifts. Bearing Star Wars lunch boxes (also very cool, but not seen here) and these:

So, so, so fun. We could hardly wait to try them out. Of course, that meant we had to enter the world of alternate ingredients. Sugar cookies = butter and eggs = none for Josh and Ben = very sad boys. We used Ener-G egg replacer, ground flax seed and butter flavored Crisco to get a very unpromising dough. It was dry, crumbly and tasted a little bit weird to me. But we persevered and managed to get it rolled out so we could use these:
The boys were ecstatic. Both Josh and Michael got a chance to use the cookie cutters, which is why some of them don't have many facial features. They honestly had a difficult time deciding which cookie cutter to use first because they were all so cool. This then led to long discussions about which one they were going to eat first. They entire process was fraught with wonderfully difficult decisions. Jason kept quiet for most of the time, but I think he struggled with the same decisions.
For Josh, the bounty hunter won out and even though he was very excited to eat Boba Fett, he was true to his native cautiousness and took a nibble of the helmet before committing entirely to this new food. I thought it was a complete miracle that he picked a cookie up and put it in his mouth entirely of his own will. Trying to get him to try an Oreo was just about as difficult as trying to get him to eat a vegetable, so this was definitely a break-through. Apparently the draw of eating Star Wars characters is strong with this one.
Success! He even closed his eyes and rubbed his belly with pleasure and informed me that he likes these cookies even better than bread. Somehow, I thought that might be the case. Thanks, Nana!!!