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Thanks to [Instagram user Katy Atakturk](https://www.instagram.com/atakturk/), we now know it’s possible to make nearly perfect Baby Yoda cookies by chopping off the head of an angel-shaped cookie cutter. Atakturk shared the out-of-this-galaxy tip online on Dec. 12, but it didn’t go viral until her photos were tweeted out by Twitter user J.R. McGrail on Sunday. As of Monday morning, [his tweet](https://twitter.com/JRMcGrail/status/1206308502349778947) has been liked over 43,000 times and retweeted over 8,000. The steps for creating a shockingly accurate cookie dough rendering of the Child, as Disney calls the baby of Yoda’s species that quickly became the breakout star of the _Star Wars_ series [_The Mandalorian_](https://time.com/5717734/mandalorian-star-wars-timeline/), are simple: Cut the head off of your angel cookie cutter, cut your cookies, bake and decorate! 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