ouija board giant cookie!

I have no problem admitting I’m a huge chicken.  I have never been in the same room as a ouija board.  I wanted to, it seems like a crazy, amazing experience, but nope.  I have seen the Exorcist stairs in Georgetown enough times growing up to definitely say whatever a dead person might have to say to me is not worth the risk of spewing green goo.  That being said, this game board has a really cool history* and just seems like a perfect inspiration for a giant cookie, and giant cookies can’t be scary, right? 

The major notes on construction of this clairvoyant cookie:

1. The hand tool is the most fussy part of the whole project. You will need another roll out cookie recipe, I used gingerbread since I am planning on making some other gingerbread projects (shameless plug, check out the blog soon!) but a sugar cookie would work.  Create a rounded triangle and cut out a hole to make the hand tool viewer window.   Fill this circle with pieces of crushed sugar glass.  This cookie will need to be baked on parchment paper, since when you take it out of the oven the sugar glass goo will be liquid and will only harden as it cools, a slipmat will leave a pattern on the hardened sugar glass.
2. Like I have noted, the hand tool hole is filled with sugar glass- you will only use about a teaspoon of this, so if you would rather not make a whole recipe of it (but you should, since broken glass makes the perfect decoration for a lot of stuff this time of year!), you can use a clear lollipop crushed up and placed in the hand viewer hole, that is fine. Or you can just leave the hand tool hole empty, that is fine, too.  The picture below shows the evolution of this hand-tool hole.  I think I have said hand tool hole enough times now, it’s starting to feel gross. 
3. For the lettering and tinting of the giant cookie, I turned to vodka. I don’t mean this project drove me to the bottle, I mean I painted on the lettering and the wooden background color using a few drops of gel food coloring in vodka.  For the light brown, I diluted the drops in a few tablespoons of vodka, for the black letters I barely used any vodka and kept it very concentrated.  It dries super fast and is way easier than piping all that stuff on.  Ok, I might have had a bit of vodka while making this, too. 
4. I tinted the giant cookie dough like candy corn, but any Halloween colors would provide a secret surprise once the board is cut into!

One of the most terrifying experiences I had as a freshman in high school was going to see the movie The Craft with my friend Meghan.  I could not stop crying in the car as her dad drove us home, for no reason whatsoever.  It’s not even that great of a movie!  I never even was a teenage witch! But I literally cried for like 25 minutes while her dad, possibly the nicest man ever, just gripped the steering wheel during possibly one of the most uncomfortable car rides of his life.  So I would recommend this movie with this treat, for all the drama, confusion and otherworldly-ness symbolized in both.  Let me know if your cookie board sends you any messages from beyond…and maybe leave an extra glass of milk out for some supernatural cookie lovers. 

*Ironically, much like most of my teenage years, the Victorian era when ouija boards were invented was a time of little connection between unmarried men and women- the ouija board attempted to change that and was billed as a perfect gift for men to give women where they might be able to have their knees and hands touch in a darkened room with the pretense of reaching out to some deceased, dear old Aunty! oh the scandal!   I’m not sure how many ouija board marriages resulted, but I’m guessing it was at least a few.  And if anyone out there needs a better meet up story than “tinder,” you’re totally welcome to say, ”over a ouija board seance” with a dangerous look in your eyes.  No one will ever be the wiser, and I won’t tell.

** I’m not saying that this post is possessed, but none of the recipes posted the first time around, and then it was re-sent out.  Coincidence?  I think not.  I’m all goosebumps over here!