A puzzling cookie

Thank you LilaLoa for the puzzling challenge!

This is so cool!  how??  I want to try this!

this is FABULOUS!  you must share how this is done!

This is either Photoshop or breaking all physical laws of dough I am aware of. I add my voice to the chorus - how on earth did you do that?!?

Me too!

I love this!

Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments. It's a puzzle so I will let you all figure out how it is done! (Only joking, I will upload some how-to photos later today.)

Laegwen, your comment made me laugh so hard! This is actually made up of three cookies, a sharp paring knife and patience. I will post more details shortly.

To show that I haven't broken any laws of physics, here is my step-by-step guide for this cookie:

Step 1. Bake three cookies in the shapes shown in the small image attached. I coloured some of my dough for more definition.

Step 2. Now, go and bake nine more of these sets. Trust me.

Step 3. When the cookies have cooled, use a paring knife, or similar, to narrow each cookie and widen their centres.

Step 4. Eat the 27 cookies that broke during step 3.

Step 5. Assemble the puzzle with the surviving three cookies as shown below.

Love this so much !!

Step 4 is awesome! I once made a cake with ice cream cones on the sides. The sugar cones needed to be cut in half. I needed a whole box to get the 5 good ones I needed! The broken ones made great snacks!  

I stand in awe to your creativity!

No problem Laegwen. It would have truly been amazing if the cookies baked like this!

Awh thanks for the kind words Robin H@Sweet Hart Bake Shop. I can only imagine how difficult that ice cream cone task would be!