Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009YAY!! 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!