Try, You Must

I know Yoda doesn't believe in trying but whatever.
Have you seen these great Star Wars cookie cutters now at Williams Sonoma?
The day I received the email for these I went and bought them. For my son, you ask? Um... sure... yeah, totally. NOPE. For me. Honestly I just want to make a bunch of Storm Troopers. So cool! And while I was there I found this pancake pen thing (more on that below). It is the WS way... you always leave with more than you planned on. Curse them!
So I hurry home and realize I don't have a dependable sugar cookie recipe that holds details in press cookies like this. Details I mock because really you end up covering it with frosting. I guess it's like the Pirate code and they just act as guidelines anyway...
So I use the one in the box and here is what my anticipated Star Wars cookies looked like.
FAIL. What kind of galactic mess is this? What Jedi wrote that recipe? They are horrible! Oh. Oops. I doubled the butter by accident. Defeated, I will have to try them again another day. In the meantime, anyone have a good recipe for this kind of thing?

Now onto the next item...
The Pancake Pen. You know those times when you try to make a fun pancake shape for your kids only to stand there explaining what your blob is supposed to be? "It's a T-Rex! You can't see that?"
For only ten bucks you can fill it with batter for cupcakes, pancakes, etc. and write/draw to your hearts content. Well, I simply had to have it! And, as expected, fruit-of-my-labor pics. It was great fun to play with. I made IDENTIFIABLE stars, hearts, shapes, etc (er, no prehistorics). The last challenge was our names. Plated beautifully here you can read from bottom to top, 'Sadie, Luke, Mmrm and Erviet'.
Go forth and try.