Miraculous Confections

[soc_puppet]

Cookies inspired by the Main Five (plus the main supervillains):

Ladybug: Strawberry chocolate chip; replace some of the eggs with strawberry puree, maybe add in some food coloring and/or extra strawberry flavor

Cat Noir: Chocolate mint chip; replace some flour with black cocoa (no activated charcoal, we don't actually want to destroy anyone) and use green mint chips; possibly add some extra mint flavor to the dough

Rena Rouge: Orange spice cookies; orange flavoring and coloring, possibly orange zest and orange juice for extra orangey-ness; possibly a pumpkin pie spice blend for the spices? Should have cinnamon and cloves, at the very least, but should not be pumpkin (orange is a livelier flavor and not necessarily season-bound)

Carapace: Matcha flavor; possibly with a white chocolate coating on one side, or some sort of dried fruit (pear???) mixed in? Matcha alone feels incomplete with a lemon-lime or just lime flat icing drizzle (thank you, norakwami!)

Queen Bee: Honey-lemon shortbread; not sure whether to do anything for stripes; possibly some powdered or crystalized ginger for just a touch of spice, but I don't know how well that would do with the other flavors Lemon-ginger shortbread dipped in crystalized honey or with a honey glaze on top (thanks you, redsixwing!)

Hawkmoth: Lavender shortbread, possibly lavender-cardamom; finally, you, too can emulate Ladybug in Stoneheart's reappearance and bite a supervillain's head off!

Mayura: Blueberry thumbprints with a (tart) red fruit tart rhubarb jam in the middle, per chanter1944; can't decide whether to include extra spices, or what sort they would be if so (I need to go sniff-testing herbs; my brain suggests thyme or rosemary, but I don't usually work with a lot of spice-and-fruit combos in the bakery) norakwami says a touch of thyme has good potential, so going with that! Thank you!


Backup Options:

ghostlyhamburger suggested an alternate Cat Noir option for folks who don't like mint, so I figured I'd give one to him and to Ladybug, just for the folks who still want to support the big two but might not be interested in the main flavors for whatever reason.

Cat Noir backup: Black cocoa with pistachio; no mint (thank you, ghostlyhamburger!)

Ladybug backup: Adzuki cookies? I want something for the spots, and I'd also prefer not cherry flavor (I'm worried that they'd outsell the "main" strawberry chocolate chip cookies).

Miraculous Cookie: Something vegan and gluten-free* for anyone who's allergic to or intolerant of any of the ingredients in the main LB and CN cookies and the typical backup versions; as few of the Big Eight as possible, hopefully none. No idea about flavor or design.

* Either they'd be only as gluten-free as the Dupain-Cheng Bakery can make them (I assume they're a wheat flour bakery, which means pretty much everything is going to have at least trace amounts of gluten), or they'll have a partnership going with a local GF bakery to get these made.

Comments

[redrikki]

Recipes please? Or possibly just send the real thing via the internets. You've made me so hungry now.

[soc_puppet]

Sorry! 😅 I'm afraid I don't actually have any recipes for these. I may see if I can dig something up online sometime, though, and if I find anything promising, I'll be sure to share it!

[redrikki]

Cool! Thanks.

[alexseanchai]

I've made lavender shortbread. (probably this recipe seeing as I emailed my sister the link the other year.)

[soc_puppet]

Makes me wish I liked shortbread at all! Or, well, as more than a vehicle for fruit tarts, anyway.

If you decide to experiment with cardamom, a little bit goes a long way; I probably wouldn't add more than a quarter teaspoon to that recipe to start, maybe an eighth. (We made cardamom ice cream a while back by adding some of the spice to our vanilla recipe. It was basically a teaspoon of cardamom to just over a gallon of ice cream base. It's powerful stuff!)