Making Cookies! + Recipes.5

COOKIES!

After a wonderful day of errands and time together, we put Horton Hears a Who! and then Speed Racer on and did some serious cookie-making. :)

All of the cookies were made after mixing the initial dough =

Basic cookie dough:

2 1/2 cups self-rising white flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

(mix dry ingredients)

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 sticks of butter

1/2 cup Crisco

1 tsp. vanilla

1/4 cup Condensed milk

(I know, it's not healthy... but it's Christmas!) :)

The two super-basic recipes (the sugar cookies for decorating) are regular and chocolate. The regular just gets a tsp. of cinnamon and nutmeg with the dry ingredients. The chocolate gets 1/2 cup of cocoa in the wet ingredients. Yum. We cut the regular as Christmas trees and the chocolate as stars and decorated them!

(I made my own icing out of confectioner's sugar, melted butter, and food coloring)

#2: Peppermint Cookies

Basic sugar cookie recipe but with 2 1/2 tsp. of Peppermint extract in the wet ingredients and 2 cups of crushed Starlite mints (the red and white, round hard candies) in the dry ingredients. The melt beautifully and become a gooey, peppermint cookie. Sooooooo delish

#3: Reese's Pieces PB Cookies

Basic recipe gets 1 cup of peanut butter in the wet ingredients and 2 1/2 cups of Reese's pieces in the dry! Chris can't have chocolate so these are a good M&M cookie or even chocolate chip cookie alternative.