Hey tea partiers! Sorry I'm so late to the party, but, as you can guess, it's a pretty busy time of the year and I had some other things I needed to do. However, I figure better late than never, eh?
It's a cookie walk over at the Teapot Tuesday challenge today! Lorraine (pidgesmom) is our challenge hostess today, and she has the cutest inspiration teapot. We're suppose to include the recipe for our favorite cookie and bring six dozen of them to the tea party. Check out the challenge here and come play along:
While I love many kinds of cookies, my favorite holiday cookies are decorated sugar cookies. Nummm!!! So I'm bringing six dozen of these tasty delights.
To make the frosting on my cookie, I mixed Rose Red reinker in with Lumiere and frosted my cookie. I then used real candy sprinkles (for which Lorraine is giving us bonus points for using candy) for the top. Hey, Lorraine: whazzthe prize for using candy?
This recipe is from a neighbor lady who happened to be one of my Girl Scout leaders when I was a kid. She always made these HUGE, delicious sugar cookies for us. When I was older, I was sure to ask her for her recipe. Here tis:
Sugar Cookies
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cup sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup milk
1 teas baking soda
1 teas baking powder
1/4 teas salt
1 teas vanilla
1/2 teas nutmeg
Mix the butter, egg, sugar, vanilla and milk together. In a separate bowl, sift flour, soda, salt, baking powder and nutmeg together. Blend the two mixtures. Chill for 2 hours. Roll and cut out.
Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 mins. Once cooled, frost and decorate as desired!
This nontraditional holiday card is also for two other challenges: today's color challenge and the Doubledog Dare challenge hosted by Joan Ervin to use polkadots in our creation! Well, da polkadots also happened to be Betty's dessert option for today's color challenge. Woo-hoo!
And, if you've read this far along, here's a message to the tea partiers: Bertie is enroute to the party, too. I noticed my paint brush and bottle of Lumiere came up missing after I used it, so watch out. Things could get messy!
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 7:25 PM
Oh yum! What a delicious sugar cookie you've got there! I especially like the frosting. You do get extra points for the candy (we'll be banking the points until I figure out what to use them for). How clever of you to include all those challenges today. Sounds like you're the challenge queen of the party!
I love hand-me-down recipes. They usually are tried and true and have a place in our hearts as well as our stomachs. Thanks for sharing it - it will go into my recipe file as well.
So glad you could make it to the Cookie Walk Tea Party this week!
------------------------------ ~lorraine
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131474
Tue, Dec 15, 2009 @ 11:22 PM
Definitely bonus points for the sprinkles!! And a yummy sounding recipe. Can you believe I'm on my second nutmeg grater - so I shall definitely try these. But I think I'll pass on the lumiere frosting, ha ha, and make some real! And stay out of the way till after Bertie has been and gone. I don't know anything that makes more of a mess in the kitchen than confectioners sugar. Yikes, I remember icing and decorating a friend's wedding cake in her house, and her house-proud mother sweeping up after me every half hour.
Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Wed, Dec 16, 2009 @ 3:04 AM
Look at this cool cookie you "baked" for us Charlene. What pretty colours this teapot has inspired. I love this layout, looks beautiful.
Now, I can understand Bertie for being attracted to these colours, I have to see if I can find her, just to see what she's up to...non, I will not put her up to naughty things voyons! My name is Maxie apr�s tout! LOL
Registered: April 14, 2009 Location: in my own little PINK sparkly world Posts: 12150
Wed, Dec 16, 2009 @ 5:27 AM
Oh my!!!(smacking forehead) I thought at first, you just plopped a real cookie on the bg and took a picture of it. That is so real looking and mebbe, well mebbe a lot because I just love sugar cookies with frostin too....but this is a super cute creation.
Thanks for sharing your GS leaders cookie recipe with us. I'm surely gonna try it...