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: 1266
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105198
Thu, Dec 17, 2009 @ 4:27 AM
Oh that Bertie.......always ready to fling somethin'!! that cookie really looks good enough to eat!! Sugar cookies! YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: November 5, 2007 Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Posts: 13629
Fri, Dec 18, 2009 @ 7:48 AM
Wow real candy sprinkles on your card - look out we may eat it by mistake! Love the colours and great shine to your icing! Maybe it's a good thing I'm so late - hopefully Bertie is finished flinging and I can just saunter down the line picking up my goodies!!
------------------------------ ~ Laurie Proud Fan Club Member
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83088
Sat, Dec 19, 2009 @ 3:45 AM
What a fun card! You are so creative. Love the colors too. Hope things haven't been too messy at the party - I will be totally late again. I bring some magic erasers - the clean up anything.
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Sat, Dec 19, 2009 @ 9:33 PM
Yummo cookie Charlene. Hope Bertie doesn't get into them and start a flinging! Love the sprinkles on your cookie, super cool. Awesome card and wonderful recipe. TFS :0)
------------------------------ Cathy B aka: Mutnik ....or is it Nutmeg?! I get so confused!
Smile.......people will wonder what you are up to! :0) Proud Fan Club Member 2010 DT forRubbernecker Stamps My Gallery