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!
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 GMT Views: 1272
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