YAY!! I love green day! Green’s my favorite color, you know. Right?
Anyway. Today Tara is the snack helper at Preschool, and she wanted to bring green cookies with sprinkles. Since I have the best decorated cookie recipe (we actually just call them Christmas cookies…but I make them for most major and minor holidays, really) in the whole world, I readily agreed to help fulfill Tara’s wish. And, since I haven’t ever posted this particular recipe, well, here it is.
Christmas Cookies
2 sticks butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Mix the first four ingredients. Combine dry ingredients separately. Mix first four with the dry ingredients. Chill. (That’s important. The chilling. I usually chill for an hour. If you’re in a hurry put it in the freezer for as long as you have. It will roll better chilled. But not frozen of course.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll. Cut. Bake. 8-10 minutes – in my oven 10 is perfect, it mildly depends on how think you roll them.
Frosting
1 stick butter, melted
1 lb powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
thin with milk
(It will thicken as it sits…)
Decorate those cookies!! And if you’re Tara, include about eight milion sprinkles per cookie. Just for good measure.
Tomorrow I’ll be baking pumpkin muffins in cute shamrock papers. And I always celebrate green day with Miss Sump. See:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Just yesterday I was thinking that I should bring some green treats in to school today. But then I watched TV.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Pats! Send my greetings to Ms. Sump!
Those cookies look phenomenal. Are there any left? I’m coming over.
It’s always the easiest finding special treats for St. Patrick’s Day. I always seem to have something on the 3rd shelf of my frig., way, way in the back.
Oh, and I found the cutest thing last night. Duncan Hines now makes cake mix for only 12 cupcakes. The box is so small & cute. They were on sale for .50 a box so I bought a bunch. And what a perfect size if you want just the raw batter. Way to go Duncan Hines.
“Cookies!!” (then eating noises just like Cookie Monster makes)
Mmmm….you have summer sausage. What is that under the butter?
PS….I think that egg might be trying to escape. Watch out he’s making a break for it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUFxaauNTE
Heh.
Under the butter is Beef tips in Gravy. It’s by Hormel, and with mashed potatoes makes EXCELLENT hot beef sandwiches. You should try it.
That sausage is from Schuster’s. The best sausage I have ever had. Hands down. Schuster’s is a local butcher on east Cornhusker.
The egg is boiled. Only the boiled ones are allowed to roam free. If you could see more clearly, you’d also see a “B” written on the shell. So I know he’s boiled.
Anything else?
Seriously, those are really good looking cookies.