Ever since I came across these fabulous science-themed baked goodies, I’ve wanted to bake some petri dish sugar cookies. I decided the perfect opportunity came when I was thinking about how to make a microbiology lecture interesting for my students. Why not bake examples of what they should expect with their bacterial conjugation experiments? Sounds like delicious idea to me!

The majority of my cookies were edible replicas of LB or blood agar plates with your basic bacterial streaks or streaks to single  colonies:

And here is a sample slide from my lecture – a baked depiction of some E. coli loving!

People in my lab also got a kick out of these cookies – they were all devoured within the same day!

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